Bai En continued to examine the ground under their feet, as he did a few hours ago. They have now reached the initial stage of waste soil eroded by evil forces. Below them, he could see the first colorful peculiar dunes, which began to mix with the desolate rocky plains.

The sky in front is turbulent, full of moving clouds with unusual metallic tones. The sun is rarely visible, and when it shows its face, it looks bigger and redder. They seem not only to enter a new continent, but also to enter a whole new world. The jewels on the head of this airship shone, as if any magic applied to them was now fully activated.

The absolute speed of the airship once again surprised Bai En, as if they had never flown at full force during the previous journey. In the past few hours, they have crossed the high mountains and then the rolling plains.

These plains initially did not look much different from the grasslands of Kaslov-just when you look closely, you can see the burnt ruins, where the stones obviously flow like water, forming a new strange Shapes, ponds and lakes shone strange pink and blue, as if contaminated with strange chemicals.

The plains are followed by swamps, followed by tundra. The temperature began to drop noticeably. Sometimes layers of deep red snow hit the windows, and then the water droplets that melted into red flowed down the glass, which made Bai En feel uncomfortably remembering the blood.

In the end, these desolate lands were replaced, and turned into a place without grass, a plain full of gravel, with towering boulders everywhere, which reminded Bai En of the prehistoric megalithic monument. In his view, these things are unlikely to be built by humans, but you will never know.

Sometimes they will cross a small team of horned beasts, which will beat their chests and challenge them loudly. At other times, they fly over a large group of foraging humans, at least from this distance it looks like humans. These people scattered as soon as the airship approached. Bian saw through the telescope that they all had mutated features, which were undoubtedly distorted.

He wanted to know how they survived on this unhealthy land-try not to think about the dark stories about cannibalism and devouring corpses in cults.

Now they even left those desolate places far behind, looking down on the glittering desert. But Bai En began to feel something was wrong, he started to feel dizzy, and then disgusted. It was like seasickness, but Bai En knew this shouldn't happen, but he wasn't sure what happened.

He leaned on the railing, holding his head with one hand, as if feeling the blood in his body boiling, and even hearing the gurgling sound of blood flowing. Then he felt his magic power was mobilized, and began to spread along the body completely out of his control.

Damn, Bai En suspected that this was a state of magical bite, but he didn't cast a spell at all, he didn't understand how this happened. He raised his arm all the way, and found that all the blood vessels on his arm were protruding, spreading like a spider web.

Damn, damn, Bai En cursed secretly, and then quickly took out a few bottles of potions from the pocket on his body, hesitated, and poured these temporary drugs into the mouth regardless. Then he felt the potion started to work and began to contend with something in the body, but it seemed that the situation was getting worse.

He could feel something moving in the blood vessel, as if crawling into the blood vessel has been a worm, he could even see some blood vessels on the body bulge, and then move toward the heart. He wasn't sure if there was a problem with the potion, or whether it was not a symptom of the magic backlash.

But he wasn't going to sit and wait for his death. He pulled out the sacrificial knife, cut his finger, and began to recite the mantra, mobilizing magic. He suspected that he was suffering from some kind of curse, or magic poison, no matter what, it contaminated his blood, but his previous potions seemed to condense it into a mass.

Now he is ready to try to restrain it by releasing the spell that can control the blood to a certain extent. He stared at the thing that kept bulging and contracting along the blood vessels, and then moved in the direction of his heart, and calculated its law in his heart.

Finally, when it ran to the right chest position of Bai En, after calculating the point and distance of the knife, Bai En inserted a knife into his chest. He could feel what he stabbed, and then he controlled the sacrificial knife to control the blood, and then pulled out the sacrificial knife, bringing out a long black blood. The blood even twisted on the tip of the sacrificial knife, and then wrapped the blade of the sacrificial knife.

Bai En didn't understand how this thing got into his body, but judging from the color of the blood flowing out of the wound, this thing seemed to be sucked out by the sacrificial knife. Bai En used his other hand to take out the healing potion, pour it on the wound, and then recite the mantra, hoping that the potion would stop the bleeding.

After doing all this, Bai En released the spell on the sacrificial knife, and at the same time threw the black blood on the ground. The black blood twisted like a bug on the ground, and then it began to lose its strength to support its existence and became a pool of blood.

Bai En fell into thinking about what this is. Until he heard the old dwarf approaching, Borek's stick made a clicking sound on the metal floor, and then he felt a rough hand touching his sleeve.

"Put on this amulet," Borrek said, staring at the black blood on the ground. "We have now entered the evil wasteland itself, and it will protect you from their influence. Try to keep it close to yours as much as possible, because that will transfer its power to you and protect you from black magic influences."

Bai En took the amulet and lifted it to the light. A silver chain and a jewel hang on the outer shell, the shape and color of which are exactly the same as ice cubes, like the frozen stalactites hanging on the eaves that he often sees in winter. It was a crystal he had never seen before, and when he looked inside, he felt he saw a faint light.

He touched the stone and thought he would feel cold, but if there was any feeling, it would be a little warm.

He tilted his head suspiciously and looked down at the old dwarf.

"This is what Mr. Schneider did for you, didn't he?"

Borek grinned at him. "You don't trust him, do you, Mr. Bai En?"

Bai En shook his head. "This is an old problem. I don't trust wizards who deal with evil forces."

"I think this is commendable, but also a bit stupid."

"I have experienced magic and evil." Bai En said lightly. "Trust me, neither of these things makes me happy."

Borek glanced out the window and smiled bitterly. "Me too. Let me tell you. I guarantee with my life that you can trust Eisenheim-Schneider."

"Good! Because in my opinion, this is exactly what you are doing."

"You are too stubborn. Our dwarves found this to be an admirable quality. However, your view of Schneider is wrong. I have known him for many years. I have talked to him and traveled with him. I save He saved my life. He did n’t have any stains on his body. "

The quiet and authoritative tone in the voice of the master scholar is more convincing than his words. Bai En thinks the dwarf may be right. But—Bai En grew up in a place where magic and evil often scare people. He also had some terrible experiences under the wizard. It is very difficult to put aside the prejudices of a lifetime. Even the old dwarf said so much.

The master scholar seemed to understand this too, so he just shrugged and pointed to the manned cabin around him. "Even the dwarves will change, Mr. Bai En, if there is any difference, it is that we are more bound by tradition and prejudice than you. The entire airship violates the tradition of one of our strongest guilds. However, we have Put aside prejudice, because our goal is great. "

"Do you think the reason I need this amulet is also great?" Bai En said sarcastically.

"I think this will be your best protection against evil, Mr. Bai En, as long as its magic is still there. Believe me, you need to protect yourself from falling into evil." Borek casually glanced at the ground after he finished speaking. Black blood.

Then he turned around and quickly shouted to Mackason. Bai En was surprised to hear him say this hoarse tone with a larynx. When they traveled together, the dwarves around him all spoke imperial languages, and some spoke common languages. At first, Bai En thought it was out of politeness, because he was an alien, and he didn't understand it, but then he realized that it was actually due to the particularly suspicious dwarf thought.

Yes, they are polite, but they also think their language is sacred and secret, and do not want outsiders to learn it. Unless they are totally trustworthy. Among all the people he knew, it seemed that only the higher-ranking Marnus priests might be proficient in this language, and they would only teach this language to their priests after accepting the priesthood. Bion guessed that Borek decided to speak dwarf language now, indicating that he had overcome an obstacle and the old dwarf trusted him. He was vaguely happy.

"I just told the pilot to land the plane to those ruins. I think I recognized them."

Bai En looked in the direction of the scholar's finger. Among them are collapsed buildings and other things. He raised the telescopes in front of his eyes and saw that they were like a metal carriage, completely closed. Except for the crystal-like window holes, only the driver could see the outside, and there were four window holes on the side, and the weapon could be extended from inside.

Has a special funnel-shaped structure on its back, and there is no yoke that can fit any pack animal. Something on them reminded him of the chariot with fully covered compartments he had prepared for the wizards when he was on Fatalin Island, and the Marnus steam chariot he had seen in Heidelberg.

"This is the first field camp for our last expedition," Borek said. "See where those rusty huge wastes are? Those are our means of transportation. We were attacked by enemy forces here, and they were driven away by heavy losses. The piles of stone there are for us Built for the dead. "

Bai En realized that the airship had stopped on the ruins, and the other dwarves were squeezing down the windows and portholes and looking down. They looked down at it with a sense of awe, as Bai En showed when he saw the human pilgrim enter the temple. In a way, this is yet another piece of evidence that the dangers on waste soil are worrying enough. On the other hand, this is reassuring because it shows that people have been here before and everything here is not completely unknown

He looked down on the abandoned vehicle and the empty tomb, and his previous sadness was back. Those things have stood there for at least two decades ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ The only thing that sees them are the eyes of evil admirers and monsters. He really hoped he didn't come here.

"Near the cave where Grerogan found his axe." Borek said softly.

"Really? It's hard to imagine that your failure in this expedition wasn't the reason that Guerrero became an oathbreaker."

"No. That was what happened later-"

Borek smiled sadly, then looked at him, opened his mouth, as if to speak, and then, as if realizing that he had said too much, closed his mouth again. Bai En wanted to ask more questions, but he suddenly realized that if the old dwarf did not want to speak, there was no way for him to speak.

Bai En noticed that he was still carelessly holding the amulet in his hand. He suddenly thought that there is no doubt that the old dwarf knows these things better than him, maybe he should listen to the master of the dwarf scholar. He wrapped the silver necklace around his neck and let the stone hang down in his shirt. When it touched his skin, he felt a strange sting. He shivered all over, and then the feeling disappeared, leaving only a warm glow, but it did not make him feel at ease.

Borek patted his back. "Very good," he said. "Now you are better protected than ever."

Bai En looked up at the horizon, praying to the unknown **** who had always protected himself for the soul and safety of the dwarf below. At this moment a harbinger of doom is coming to him suddenly, and then it did not leave. Even if the spacecraft's engine roared and started again, they began to move forward, and they did the same after going deep into the evil ruins.