Chapter 229 New Era

  ... The fallen leaves brought a message: at the junction beyond the fog, the golden tree has become a thing of the past.

  The grace of the gods is far away from this land, and the long dark night will end, and the remaining people have walked out of the ruins and left the jungle. They will start a new era in this land that has lost the blessing and guidance of gold.

  And this is... the age of stars.

  【Complete the Fragment Mission "Eirden's Ring"】

  【Acquire World Fragments—Junction Land】

  【Obtain a special ability—the law of death】

  【Death Law (born from Death Rune, brand new law): You can restore blood volume by attacking enemies, increase the upper limit of blood volume, increase all ability values ​​by 5%, and grant the ability to summon soul black flames】

   "Phew...it's finally done."

  Looking at the map in front of him, Duanmuhuai also sighed. After obtaining the world fragment of the junction, Duanmuhuai's first headache was where to put it. In the end, Duanmu Huai thought about it and decided to place the junction above the holy city.

In other words, if the current map is regarded as a planet, then the area where the Holy City is located is in the middle of the Tropic of Cancer, while Manalia and Regnes are on the right side of the Holy City area. It is planned to be placed on the top of the Holy City, which means that the border with the Holy City is the Weeping Peninsula, and the topmost Holy Snow is close to the Arctic Circle...

  The current order of the junction has returned to nature, and the power of the death rune has erased all the things that were distorted by the golden law before, which naturally includes the scarlet curse that Gelid suffered. Right now, Mysterina and Milfy are leading the people of the forest back to the borderland, and together with the remaining people in the borderland, they are rebuilding their own world and hometown.

   And Lorena also returned to the holy city to report to the archbishop, who also agreed to send people to the junction to help Mysterina and others build together. Of course, the issue of the border area will be resolved after discussion between Mysterina and the religious order on the other side of the holy city. As for Duanmuhuai - although he is indeed the King of Elden in name at present, Duanmuhuai is not interested in doing these things, professional things should be left to professional talents.

   At least for now, it may be impossible for the borderland to recover its vitality within a few decades.

  Since Duanmuhuai has obtained the ownership of the border land, he can naturally open the door and return to his own battleship, so Duanmuhuai kept his promise and brought Lani to his own battleship.

  When Lani crossed the portal and came to the battleship, she was quite shocked by what she saw, and then Duanmuhuai gave her a brief explanation of the concepts of the universe, the galaxy, and stars, which surprised Lani even more.

   "...You mean, each of those shining stars in the night sky is a planet, a world?"

   "Not all planets have life. After all, life comes from water and air... Well, I will ask An to ask for a few Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky Way to help you literacy. Just remember to bring your own towel."

   "???"

   "Nothing, just kidding."

   Obviously, Lani couldn't understand Duanmuhuai's joke, but this didn't prevent her from drawing a conclusion.

   "Then, if what you said is correct... is the supreme will that governs the borderland the cosmic civilization you are talking about?"

Although Lani doesn't really understand the concept of the universe and stars, Duanmu Huai has already told her that every world is a star, and some powerful forces can even cross the star sea and rule several planets. They are as smart as Lani , can naturally understand the meaning.

   "Ah... It's a bit different, but it's the same. In fact, I know what the supreme will you are talking about."

   "Huh? You know?"

   "Well, I wish I didn't know..."

   Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai's face showed a bitterness, as if he found half a worm in the middle of eating an apple.

"All in all, that's not you, and it's not something we can face now. That thing is quite dangerous. Frankly speaking, I don't want to deal with it in my life... If I can, I hope to stay away from it of."

   "What the **** is that?"

  Hearing what Duanmuhuai said was so serious, Lani also stared at him seriously, but Duanmuhuai just shook his head.

"Sorry, I can't even tell you its name. In fact, just by knowing its name, it is possible to be noticed and paid attention to by it. Believe me, that is definitely not something you are willing to touch, especially your current one. The shape is too easy to be affected... All in all, it is better not to know anything, at least for now."

"………All right."

   Lani is not stupid, since Duanmuhuai said so seriously, she will not be so stupid that she can't understand the meaning of Duanmuhuai's words, so she nodded, obediently went to watch the stars with the jellyfish sisters.

   "Hoo......"

  Watching Lani leave, Duanmuhuai also heaved a sigh of relief. To be honest, this time I gained a lot in the borderland, but being noticed by that thing is much more dangerous than being paid attention to by Chaos God. But fortunately, that guy shouldn't have any special interest in such a small reptile like himself, as long as he doesn't take the initiative to provoke the other party-well, it should be fine?

   Forget it, let’s talk about this later.

  Duanmu Huai shook his head, then he left the combat command room and came to the Void Barracks, where he saw the blond girl who was immersed in the drawings.

   "Ah, Lord Knight!"

  Seeing Duanmuhuai's appearance, Kulala raised her head from the drawing room and saluted him.

   "It's okay, don't be too polite, I came to you this time because of that... Is it done?"

   "It's been fixed, theoretically there will be no problems, but we haven't done more precise experiments yet..."

   "It doesn't need to be so precise, are you sure it can achieve the effect I want?"

"sure."

"very good."

  After that, Duanmuhuai returned to the junction again through the portal, and then he followed the map to a cemetery near the king's city, and then Duanmuhuai opened the door...and walked in.

   "Pfft."

A flying mouse was trampled into meat paste under Duanmu Huai's feet. Duanmu Huai raised his head and saw that the originally flat cemetery had now turned into a huge hollow, with rotten and dilapidated ruins everywhere. The surrounding torches were burning with a faint green light.

  A huge statue of a **** stands in it. It has several long curved horns, and its face is ugly and hideous. But Duanmuhuai just glanced at it, and then withdrew his gaze.

   "Okay, let's get to work."

While speaking, Duanmuhuai hummed a song, and then unloaded a huge iron box that was almost as tall as him from behind. He stretched out his hand, put the iron box on the ground, released the restraint, placed the bracket, Then, while adjusting the equipment in front of him, he hummed a song.

  "The sun shines on my head, the flowers smile at me, and the little bird says, early morning, why are you carrying a pack of explosives..."

  In the silent and empty underground hall, only the monotonous sound of steel clashing echoed. Black shadows quietly emerged from all around, with scarlet lights shining in their eyes, staring at the guy fiddling with unknown things in front of the statue.

   "Hiss..."

  Duanmuhuai seemed to have nothing to say about it, he just continued to hum and fix the thing in front of him on the ground.

   "Hiss... Intruders! Bad! Intruders! Bad! Kill the bad intruders!"

  A series of whispers sounded, and then, an arrow smeared with poison flew out silently and shot directly at Duanmuhuai's head. Then "铛" bounced off the helmet. Seeing this scene, those beings who were originally hidden in the shadow quickly backed away, but Duanmuhuai just reached out and touched the helmet without even raising his head.

   "Bold! Bold! Bold!"

Seeing that the other party ignored him so much, the figure in the dark became more and more angry. While jumping, it let out a sharp growl, and the next moment, with the growl, hundreds of ratmen suddenly Out of the shadows, rushed towards Duanmu Huai from all directions!

   At this time, Duanmuhuai also finished humming the song.

   "...As soon as I pulled the rope, I ran, and everything was blown up with a bang...!"

   After the voice fell, Duanmuhuai slammed the button on the steel box in front of him, and at the same time the portal opened from behind him again, and Duanmuhuai took a step back and disappeared directly into the portal.

   Immediately afterwards, dazzling white light filled the entire space.

   "———————!!"

   No one knows what happened.

  Those who were lucky enough to witness all this saw only one thing—the notorious cursed city belonging to the Ratmen—the Skaven magic city broke out completely at this moment. The ground surged upwards under the action of a huge impact, and all the things on the ground of Skaven Demon City were blown to pieces. They flew into the sky with a huge air current, and then fell down—into the pitch-black almost Can't see the underground cave.

  The deafening roar almost swept across half of the world. Even as far away as the imperial capital Altdorf, the thunderous roar could be heard. The surrounding ground trembled uncontrollably, and the houses under the violent vibration also collapsed. In just a moment, the huge magic city that was cursed in the legend and became the city of ratmen has completely disappeared from the surface of the earth, and what remains instead is a huge, pitch-black pothole.

   "Damn! Damn!"

A ratman screamed and crawled out of the rubble. He was covered in wounds and seemed to be almost dying, but even so, he was still trying to climb out. The hall was completely destroyed, only the huge Ratman statue stood there intact. It seemed that the violent explosion that was enough to destroy an entire city was meaningless to it.

   "Help me! Help me!"

The Ratman desperately crawled towards the stone statue. It raised its hand and made a heart-piercing prayer to the statue in front of it. Perhaps it was because it was so focused that the Ratman didn't realize that at this moment, it was in the ground. There was some kind of terrible screaming and roaring sound.

  The temperature of the earth began to rise gradually, and the fur of the Ratman that was attached to the ground was scorched. However, no matter where the rat man rolled, it felt like the ground beneath it was burning like a hot iron pot, scorching its body.

   "It's hot! It's hot! It's hot! It's going to be roasted! It's been roasted!"

  The Ratman almost lost his mind under the high temperature. It rolled aimlessly while rolling, and then the Ratman suddenly felt a light on his back, and the feeling that he was almost scorched disappeared instantly. At the same time, the gravitational force restrained the ratman's body, and it screamed and waved its limbs, falling towards the dark ground—and then was completely swallowed by the huge magma emerging from it.

   "Boom———!!"

Like a volcanic eruption, hot magma spewed out from the ground. They spread in all directions and flowed in along every channel. In the blink of an eye, the huge ratman city below the entire Skaven Demon City was almost Completely caught in a sea of ​​flames.

  The Ratmen screamed and ran, but they had nowhere to go. The magma rushing in the tunnel was flowing forward slowly and unwaveringly, and nothing could stop this terrifying existence. Many ratmen even fell to the ground while running, and then they were completely swallowed up by the flames that shot out of nowhere.

  In the underground world, these ratmen have nowhere to escape.

  They screamed, wailed, and uttered distressed and praying sounds. And these voices—of course they were heard by their gods.

"Roar---!"

The huge statue shattered amidst the roar, and then, a huge rat man strode out of it. It stared at the magma that was spreading before it and flooded the underground city of the rat man, its eyes were red, and it roared angrily. . However, just as the ratman raised his hand, planning to do something, suddenly a black flame descended from the sky!

   "Go to hell! Horned Rat!"

  Duanmu Huai held a warhammer in his hand, his whole body was wrapped in black flames, falling from the sky like a shooting star, and rushed towards the big horned rat in front of him!

  (end of this chapter)