Chapter 232 Giant City
Walking down the last bridge of sound waves, the one presents to the two of them is a huge city, as if built by a giant, and the city wall alone is several times higher than that of Katris.`````
The size of the city can only be described by the word "huge", but this word seems pale and powerless in front of them. The towering buildings are all in a rough style, and the uncarved houses are arranged in sequence, which is taller than buildings built by modern skills.
"Far from a distance, I think it's a big exaggeration... Who is the one who built a city of this size?" Looking up at the collapse of most of the city walls, Curt's tone revealed a little regret, "What a pity, such a city has become ruins."
Entering the city's interior through the cracks on the wall, he once again felt the hugeness of the city - compared with them, which had only left wreckage, it was as if they had been reduced. Even the smallest shed was filled with indescribable oppression.
It is a city of giants. Even the most basic stone is as high as several people. Every place of the houses built by them has a terrifying scale. Collapsed portals, collapsed walls... huge piles of waste are quietly piled up in the city, enduring the wind erosion of time.
Although the surrounding stone houses are all behemoths, they are just some low sheds compared to the huge towers further away. In the era when this city was still in use, perhaps it was just the most basic civilian housing, and they were obediently crawling under the tower.
Looking deep in the giant city, surrounded by many stone houses, there is a cylindrical gray stone pillar. In the already huge enough house, it does not cover its body shape. If it weren't for the top that had already cracked, it would probably have increased a lot of height.
That is the nearest tower...it may also be the shortest stone tower surrounding the central black tower. The gray-white tower was dug several huge holes with rough methods, but unfortunately most of them have been blocked by collapsed gravel, and there is no way to see what is inside.
Most buildings have only one frame left, and most of the remaining buildings are basically only a crumbling frame. They are not much different from most ruins. The buildings that have been in disrepair will not be defeated by the power of time in a long time, and in the end they cannot even see the prototype.
"Wait a moment……"
A kind of unspeakable feeling flashed through Curt's mind, and he immediately said to Liqi: "Liqi. Can you show me the headband I just picked up? I think something seems wrong... Does that bone really belong to the residents here?"
There is no doubt that this place was once a city-state with a civilized race, and its owners should be the "giants" clan several times taller than Curt and others. Just see the tall buildings and the still-staying doors. They definitely have similar body shapes.
Although there are no traces of anyone's existence now, and no relics can be left in the collapsed buildings that can prove their identity... But there is one thing Curt would never admit that the skeleton they excavated in the sandbank sediment was just the size of an ordinary person.
"You want to say, that skeleton is too small. It's disproportionate to the building?"
Liqi said casually. She obviously had noticed this problem a long time ago: "I have said it a long time ago. Without a control group, there is no way to confirm many things. You say it does not belong to this city - that is indeed possible, but if you want to say that they do not belong to this world, there is no evidence."
She raised her hand casually, as if she was signaling Curt to see the devastated ruins in front of her.
The city also encountered treatment similar to that wasteland, and most of the giant city was covered with thick ashes. The silence of death filled every corner of the vision. There was nothing on the cold streets, and I am afraid that the residents of the past either left or had been destroyed with the city.
"If there are many different races, is it a war that will destroy this place?" Curt looked around and said in disbelief, "Then the scale of this war is too terrible!"
The last bit of vitality of the land has been taken away. Even the once lush grasses turned into crystallized solids. Almost all the weeds growing around the road were buried by piles of ashes, and only a few stems appeared in the pile of ashes like a pile of ashes.
On both sides of the street, there are rows of thick trees - perhaps, trees that have turned into stone statues. They are as tall as those buildings, with some translucent crystals showing some dull color brilliance from the peeling "bark".
"Who knows?"
Liqi seemed to have no interest in this issue, but the crystallized trees were more attractive to her. She yawned and said lazily: "No matter why this is the case here, we are unlikely to have a chance to see the person who destroyed it."
After saying that, she casually folded a piece of crystallized branches and observed it on her fingertips. The waxy crystals peeled off little by little into fine powder on her fingertips. In just a moment, the size of knuckles completely shattered into powder, and penetrated into the thick pile of ashes little by little.
I could only feel a little bit of magic. I am afraid that even a weed in the original world would be richer than the magic in this crystal. When I came here, I noticed that everything here had been decayed, not only the extreme exhaustion of vitality, but also the magic power was not much left.
"I said, you still remember what happened to Schulsta."
Liqi sprinkled the last bit of powder in her hand on the ground, and watched silently as they gradually merged into the pile of ashes. She suddenly raised her head and said to Curt: "Don't you think these crystals are very similar to the magic crystals found at that time? They just don't have much magic."
Curt has not seen lands where life is exhausted in the past, such as Schulsta, which Liqi mentioned, is one of them. Those lands are desolate to varying degrees, but none of them is as tragic as the experience of this wasteland - everything is without business.
"You said Schulsta...but there is no sign of spells, right?" Curt recalled the scene he had seen before and asked in confusion. "The magic power on this land has been exhausted to this level, and it is impossible to tell that it is affected by large-scale spells."
On those lands that have become deserted by spells, all creatures have lost their original properties. The forms of their lives are distorted by abnormal magic. Both life and the magic structure in their bodies will present strange phenomena and become deformed monsters.
In the most serious places, the plants and trees grew to a terrifying level. They were shaking violently like being blown by strong winds, twisting and tangling together. It won’t take long to crystallize their trunks on a large scale and become blocky crystals containing a lot of magic.
The land preyed by this spell will eventually be "sucked dry" in the sense of the word, becoming a wasteland where no creature can continue to grow. For a few acres or even dozens of acres, the vitality of all the land will be squeezed out, and the magic crystals produced will most likely be taken away by the caster.
But these abnormal desolate states are ultimately the result of magic power. It is impossible to use spells to squeeze the vitality of the land without leaving any trace. When the magic power deposited in the land is taken away by spells, the magic power of the spell will remain on the already desolate land.
“This is not a problem.”
Liqi stretched out her hand and broke a branch. Unlike the one just now, these have completely turned into stubborn stones: "Look here, remember that the entire plant of Shulsta turned into crystals, but only some irrelevant parts here were converted into crystals."
Maybe the land itself has not accumulated much magic power, so it is impossible to produce a magic crystal of qualified quality - the result is that all the nearby vitality is exhausted, so that there is only such a result. After saying that, Liqi curled her lips disdainfully and threw the stubborn stone aside.
There are also cities in the wastelands, and all the lives living here are destroyed by this, but in the end they only produce meaningless debris. Although I don’t know how wide the scope it will eventually affect, at least the wider area around Katris has become wasteland.
"It's another way to squeeze life into magic... What the hell? Why are we always related to this spell recently?" There are many spells that transform life into magic, but Curt's first reaction was the Black Sun not long ago. "If this is the case, sacrificing so many lives but only such a result, can the person who created this spell just want to turn this place into wasteland?"
Even if this is true, it is too inefficient to use this slow and widely affected method. Perhaps the initiator did not initially expect that his actions would lead to devastating results. In any case, this place turned into a wasteland, and a large reason was that it was affected by a type of spell.
Curt turned his head to look at the farthest tower, and inexplicably felt that there seemed to be a strange atmosphere. Although when he was observing from a distance, the distribution of the towers in this city was somewhat similar to the metal columns seen at that time, the tallest tower was built on the vacant space that gave birth to the central black sphere.
Perhaps at the top of the tower, all the answers they want to know are hidden, but just trying to get to the bottom of the tower may be a lot of trouble. The slight ups and downs on the road leading to the tower are more than twice as high as the "normal" stairs of the residential houses here, and the stairs blocking ahead even stand like rolling hills - this is not a city that allows ordinary people to survive.
"Well... I think people in this city may have never considered it for short visitors." He looked helplessly at the broken walls piled up in front of him. Curt carried Liqi on his back, "The next shaking may be a little bit violent, so please try to grasp it as much as possible."
After saying that, his body wrapped in a tattered black suit jumped up and ran on the rolling ashes at the fastest speed, leaving a series of footprints on the dead ashes. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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