Chapter 774 Pale Kingdom
Amidst the heavy tearing sound of the wooden board that had not been moved for a long time, the tan door slowly opened outward.
The first thing that caught Lumian's eyes was a dark and dim light that was different from other areas in the depths of the underworld.
This does not come from a humanoid street lamp made of gold, but from everything in front of it.
Immediately afterwards, Lumian saw the scene outside clearly.
It was a half-sunk void-like palace complex, with a majestic main hall, multiple towers, and an air corridor connecting various palaces and towers.
The deeper this palace group goes, the more it seems to fall into nothingness, and the edge area stands on a wilderness with a sense of substance.
And even so, the main hall in the core area was still much taller than the other buildings in the palace complex.
Today, most of the buildings here have completely collapsed, leaving only broken walls and ruins, and the few remaining intact palaces and towers are mainly concentrated on the edges, and the only buildings that are still towering in the core area are the main hall and the four spires attached to it.
At this moment, whether it was the ruined palace complex, the surrounding wilderness, or the sky high above, all other colors faded, showing a dim paleness that enveloped and infected the entire world.
They bring light.
There were still a few other colors left in this pale world, namely the gold inlaid on the surface of each building and the black color representing the void at the bottom of the palace complex.
The latter had two other sources, one was the illusory Dark Styx that fell silently from high in the sky, which cascaded into the back of the main hall, and the other was a monster entrenched between the four spires at the top of the majestic main hall, long enough to be modified by the measure of 100 meters.
It was an exaggerated giant bird, stretching its feathered wings woven from pale flames and mysterious patterns, quietly crawling on the roof of the main hall, the pale flames on the surface of its body had peeled off and fallen off a lot, exposing its black and rotten skin.
Even from a considerable distance, even if he only looked at it two or three times, even if he couldn't see it clearly, Lumian couldn't help but feel that he was accelerating his "death".
He lowered his head and looked at his hands, finding that his pale, dull and dry skin had black marks of decay because he had become an undead creature.
These traces were slowly wriggling and deepening.
In addition, his clothes were initially "infected" by the paleness of this world, and all colors became dull.
"What kind of monster is that?" Lumian didn't dare to look at the giant birds in the distance, he could only look at the palace complex itself.
After a few seconds, "Knight of Swords" Mariqi's increasingly ethereal voice sounded:
"It could be Greg Carrie's body."
Greg Carrie? The ancestor of the phoenix in the eight ancient gods of the second era, the ancient god of death? Lumian blurted out in astonishment:
"How could His body be here?"
After asking this question, Lumian felt that this seemed to be a meaningless question:
This is the underworld, it is not surprising that the corpse of any deceased appears here, and the fall of the ancient god of death, the ancestor of the phoenix, was before the mutation in the underworld.
On the contrary, the body of the "god of death" of the Aegus family did not appear, and I don't know where it was hidden, which is an abnormal phenomenon.
Lumian didn't expect the "Knight of Swords" to actually answer his question:
"It may be the ancestor of the Aegus family, where the former 'Grim Reaper' was placed."
Belch...... Does it mean that the god of death of the Aegus family not only obtained the extraordinary characteristics of Gregary, the ancestor of the phoenix, but also brought his body back to the underworld and hid it somewhere in the palace complex? He, no, how did it run to the top of the palace by itself? It's just a corpse! That's how it was placed in the first place? Or, was the mutation in the underworld brought about by this ancient god's corpse? With the fall of the current 'Grim Reaper', the ancient god of death's corpse changed? Lumian suddenly had some associations.
At this time, he heard the "Knight of the Sword" add:
"Sharon just saw that egg."
That egg? The egg that the sheep-faced devil wants? Sharon refers to the temperance demigod in my body? Lumi was overjoyed and asked instead:
"Where is that egg?"
"Beneath the abdomen of the suspected phoenix ancestor, it had a pitch-black shell and burned with pale flames, about a meter in diameter." "Knight of Swords" briefly described the egg.
Protected by the corpse of an ancient god of death? Lumian's scalp suddenly numbed.
How else can I take this?
This is no different from killing the demon king Fabuti!
Of course, for the high-ranking people, a living ancient god and an ancient god who has lost his extraordinary characteristics and are left with only a rotting body are obviously not on the same level, and the difficulty of the two tasks is like heaven and the abyss, but for Lumian, this is the same, both are in the category of "sacrificing oneself cannot be completed".
The sheep face raised by the sow is really an undead creature turned into a devil!
Okay, if you don't complete it, kill the client and pretend to have no task!
When the malice in Lumi An'an spread to all parts of his body, the "Knight of Swords" said again:
"It's not impossible to get that egg, the state of the corpse of the ancestor of the phoenix is a bit strange."
The condition of the corpse is strange? Isn't there only two states of corpses, eternal sleep and corpse transformation? Lumian didn't dare to use his eyes to observe the decaying body of the ancient god of death, Gregary, so he could only ask the only person present who could look at the body of the ancient god to a certain extent, that is, the temperance demigod Sharon:
"What's wrong?"
The answer was still "Knight of Swords":
"It's sleeping, the kind of sleep that is hard to wake up from.
"This is not in line with the current situation of this pale country."
Sleep? They are all dead, the corpse has changed, and they still need to sleep? Lumian frowned slightly and said:
"Why do you say it doesn't fit the status quo here?"
The "Knight of Swords" explained after a few seconds:
"Judging from the current situation, one of the reasons for the mutation in the underworld was the corpse transformation of the ancestor of the phoenix, which destroyed the palace of the 'god of death', killed all the relatives of the 'god of death' present, and turned this place into a pale realm.
"We have come into contact with several demigods in the 'Death' realm before, after the underworld mutation, they can actually use the underworld to complete some things, and even enter directly, but none of them dare to go deep into the underworld to find the treasure left in the 'Death' palace, their intuition tells them that this place is very dangerous and must not be approached.
"And Sharon didn't have such a premonition of danger just now, so she agreed to come here."
In other words, for a long time after the mutation in the underworld, the corpse of the ancestor of the phoenix was still lingering in this pale realm, making the high-ranking people in the "Death" realm dare not approach, but now, it is asleep...... Lumian found the strangeness in the description of the "Knight of the Sword" Mariqi.
"When was the last time a high-ranking person with the 'Reaper' path approached the depths of the underworld and felt danger?" Lumian tried to determine the approximate time frame.
"I don't know." "Knight of the Sword" replied quickly.
I don't know...... In this way, the body of the ancestor of the phoenix is sleeping is what has happened in recent years, otherwise the high-ranking people of the "Reaper" path can find that this place is not so dangerous after entering the underworld, and they can try to explore, so that there will be no trace left, and there will not be any news out...... What has happened in recent years? Lumian couldn't help but complain while thinking:
"Why did the 'Grim Reaper' of the Aegus family get back the body of the ancestor of the phoenix, leaving such a big hidden danger? As the true God, He should be able to directly destroy this corpse!"
"Knight of Swords" responded to Lumian's complaint:
"The underworld was established by the ancient god of death in the spirit world, and as an ancient god, he did not only use the power of the 'death' path, nor did he use only the power of the 'death' path when he created the underworld.
"It may not be easy for the 'Grim Reaper' of the Aegus family to control the underworld at first, he needs to use the corpse left by the ancestor of the phoenix, and when he really controls it, his state may not be right, and he will no longer pay attention to such trivial matters."
Does this mean that the "Grim Reaper" of the Aegers family later went crazy? It turns out that the underworld was not formed naturally, but was created by the ancient god of death, Gregory...... This ancient god is really powerful, no wonder he may be a corpse...... Lumian sighed in his heart.
The "Knight of Swords" seemed to feel his sigh and said simply:
"It is said that even among those crazy ancient gods, Greg Carrie, the ancestor of the phoenix, is the one who likes to toss the most, and she has also tossed a lot of things, and the 'Blood Emperor' Alistair of the Fourth Age. Tudo is more similar."
I can understand it well with your analogy...... Lumian's gaze kept moving back and forth between the pale sky, the wilderness, and the collapsing palace complex, wondering whether to take advantage of the sleeping body of the ancient god of death to steal the dark giant dome that burned with pale flames.
Suddenly, he found a figure that could still move.
It was a monster with a human head but a giant bird-like body.
The monster's hands and feet were bent, its nails were sticking out with a cold glow, and its back was spread with wings covered with half-pale and half-tan feathers, and its head seemed to be incomplete, like the heads of several babies slowly merging.
"That premature baby in Osetto? It's really here!" Lumian recognized the monster's identity.
That's what he and the Temperance members are tracking!
At this time, Osetor's monster child was flapping his wings, constantly circling around, quietly approaching the sleeping ancient god's corpse little by little.
Its target seems to be the pitch-black giant egg pressing under the corpse!
"It must be stopped!
"Sharon is responsible for cursing it, controlling it, and we are responsible for attacking!"
The voice of "Knight of the Sword" sounded in Lumian's mind.
"Okay." This time, Lumian did not hesitate and ran out of the bottom of the pitch-black church.
As soon as he stepped into that pale country, his whole body was dyed pale and there was no extra color.
This made him tremble physically and mentally, and he just wanted to kneel on the ground and crawl still.
Silently, Lumian pulled out the "Sword of Courage".
The sword, which had been eroded by the pale color, burst into flames with white and blue.
(End of this chapter)