Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 302: World Devourer, Fate, Hollow Mountain, Hollow Stone

The entire space is not large, with a narrow stone path winding upwards, and you can see the end at a glance.

At the end is an ancient altar built with a few simple stone pillars, and something seems to be glowing on the altar.

Ronan walked towards the altar. In the darkness, several bats flew towards him, but he drove them aside.

Ronan has entered many lost secret realms for exploration, and this secret space is definitely the least risky one he has ever entered.

Maybe it’s just like what Alazan said, this is a “treasure place” specially left by the predecessors of wizards.

It’s just like what was described in some martial arts novels in previous lives, the kind of hidden cave with the ground piled with rare treasures and the walls engraved with martial arts secrets - "just waiting for the right person"!
He had done similar things more than once, such as the "Austerity Body Building" technique left under the bed in the Hoddam tree house area, and the meditation technique and magic tool inheritance left in the secret room of the East Coast family castle.
People always want to leave some trace of themselves in this world. A few seeds sown casually may become trees where someone who comes later can rest and feel the shade many years later.

Wizards are no exception.

Ronan strolled in the quiet space and could hear the echo of his own footsteps.

With a special feeling, he was looking forward to what the owner of this secret space would leave for him, until he reached the end of the stone path, in front of the simple and ancient altar.

There are six stone pillars standing on the altar.

Five of them are arranged in the shape of a pentagram, and the remaining one is located in the center of the pentagram.

Except for the largest stone pillar in the middle, the other five stone pillars are all suspended with a kind of white, transparent crystal that emits a faint glow.

Apart from this, there is nothing else.

After looking around, Ronan was about to approach one of the stone pillars to check it out, but he heard Alazan's soft sigh first.

"It's a pity that we're a step late."

"What do you mean?"

Ronan was stunned and subconsciously looked towards the stone pillar in the center of the pentagram.

Alazan said slowly: "Originally there should have been a World Stone placed here, but I don't know if it decayed over time or was taken away by someone first."

"World Stone"

Ronan's eyes turned slightly, and he slowly walked to the central stone pillar.

There is an obvious groove on the top of the stone pillar, and some powdery substances are scattered in the groove, which really looks like the trace of something being placed there.

Ronan reached out and gently rubbed his hand inside the groove, picking up some powder and rubbing it between his fingers.

Suddenly, his expression changed, and then he took out a palm-sized square black wooden box from the space ring.

The box was shaking violently, as if something was trying to escape from the box.

Ronan hesitated for a moment, but still opened the wooden box. A pitch-black one-horned beetle immediately flew out of it.

It fell directly into the groove on the stone pillar, and then crawled and sucked the powder in the groove bit by bit. At the same time, some translucent mucus was discharged from its tail, which sprinkled on the groove like "urine".

"You actually still have this thing? Where did you get it?"

In his mind, Alazan made a surprised sound.

"what is this?"

Ronan stared at the actions of the one-horned beetle on the stone pillar and asked casually.

He had bought this mysterious black beetle with Guikuyu at a stall at a sunset fair in the south.

According to the stall owner, the beetle came from an unknown ancient wizard's tomb.

When it was first obtained, this mysterious beetle secreted a similar transparent mucus, which then directly caused a change in the coordinates of the world stone on Ronan's body.

Now, perhaps because of the World Stone, this guy crawled out again.

"World Devourer."

Alazan replied: "A strange creature that feeds on the breath that is about to destroy the world. It has always been called the 'Messenger of Doom'. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be."

Alazan suddenly couldn't continue speaking.

The atmosphere inexplicably became somewhat depressing, and the only sound that could be heard was the rustling sound of the one-horned longhorn beetle devouring the world stone powder.

After a long time, Ronan whispered, "Is it that serious?"

"Only by finding the place where this thing first appeared and inspecting it can I make a judgment."

Arazan paused and said, “There is nothing absolute in this world. Many reasons may lead to the appearance of the World Devourer.

It could be that a world that is about to be destroyed is adjacent to our world, and a few world-eating insects happened to fall in from a space rift.
It could also be a pet raised by a wizard that escaped from the laboratory.
As long as the World Devourers don’t appear on a large scale, they won’t mean anything.”

Ronan nodded, feeling that he was worrying too much.

Whether a world is about to be destroyed cannot be judged by a tiny insect.

He subconsciously touched the coordinate position of a world stone hidden under the back of his right hand, and felt that the two speculations just mentioned by Alazan were both very possible.

“Take good care of this thing. In an age when even awake snakes are hard to catch, the existence of the World Devourer is even rarer.

Once the World Devourer is cultivated to a certain scale, it is still extremely powerful."

Arazan seemed to recall something, and whispered: "I remember that there was a wizard who successfully trained a legion composed entirely of Devourers. He didn't even reach the seventh level, but it resulted in the death of several eighth-level wizards."

Ronan looked at the ordinary one-horned longhorn beetle in front of him with a slightly surprised look in his eyes, "Is it so scary?"

"Don't underestimate any existence that has anything to do with 'world-destroying'
However, it is difficult for ordinary people to reproduce the world-eating worms in large numbers. You must first find a world that needs to be destroyed as food to feed them.

Even in our time, this was an extremely difficult thing to do.”

Alazan said calmly.

Ronan took a deep breath and carefully put the motionless unicorn beetle, which had just finished eating, back into the small wooden box.

Then all the translucent mucus secreted by it is collected.

Alazan didn't know that he held the exact coordinates that would destroy the world, or, maybe, possibly, one day.
Maybe he can cultivate this little world-eating insect!

Of course, that day is still too far away for him now.

Even the powder left by the World Stone that had once been placed on the central stone pillar had disappeared. There was nothing to see anymore. Ronan turned his gaze to the remaining five stone pillars.

A transparent crystal of similar size and irregular shape is suspended on each of these stone pillars.

Ronan tried to pick up a piece and found that the crystal was as light as a feather and could float naturally in the air after he let go.

The inside of the crystal seems hollow, and tapping it with your fingertips will produce a clear hollow echo.

"Alazan"

Ronan habitually used Alazan as an encyclopedia of oddities.

Alazan also quickly gave an answer.

“This is Hollow Stone.

It is a kind of associated crystal of the World Stone."

Ronan listened and was suddenly stunned, "Then what?"

"What do you want then?"

"For example"

Ronan glanced at the transparent crystals on the other stone pillars. "What is its function and value?"

“It’s of no particular value.

It is usually only used when activating the World Stone to open up a space channel, and there are some special spell experiments.
Hollow stone is not a particularly precious material, but it is also quite rare.

Because only wizards who hold the World Stone can produce stably, and this production process requires cycles."

"Is that all?" Ronan couldn't help but frown.

He looked around, at the empty altar and the vast secret space, and suddenly he felt a sense of loss that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

On the way from the entrance to the altar, he had thought about all the possibilities of obtaining various inherited resources and treasures, but in the end, there were only a few hollow crystal stones that were of no use to him at the moment? !

Ronan was inevitably disappointed.

Alazan also frowned and said, “It’s really strange.

Logically speaking, a space specially opened up for treasure transmission should not contain only these few things.

If the World Stone was taken away by someone first, there is no reason for that person to keep the accompanying Hollow Stone."

"never mind."

Ronan shook his head, having already shaken off the feeling of loss.

This was a pleasant surprise. It's good enough to gain something from it. There's no need to ask for too much.

Alazan didn't say anything else. Ronan began to take the hollow stones from the stone pillar one by one. When he took the fifth hollow crystal stone, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

The hollow stone that was originally hanging on the stone pillar like a hydrogen balloon seemed to have taken root underneath. He exerted a little force, and rune patterns began to appear on the top of the stone pillar.

"Take it and run."

Alazan reminded him sternly in his mind.

"Ok?"

Ronan was stunned.

“This is a self-destruct rune.

After all the hollow stones are removed, the space will self-destruct.

You have to be fast, otherwise you will be caught in the space turbulence and it will be very troublesome."

It really is a dedicated space for storing treasures, and it even has a self-destruct mechanism.
Ronan thought about it and decided to leave the last hollow stone behind.

“Leave it for the next person who is lucky enough to enter here.

I can’t be the only one to experience this feeling of expectation and disappointment.”

"Perhaps the last person who took the World Stone had the same idea."

Ronan gave Alazan a middle finger in his heart, then checked the entire altar again and found that there was still space, so he returned the same way.

Between the two semicircular stone peaks, invisible space ripples appeared, and a tall and slender figure suddenly walked out from nothingness.

Two hungry and exhausted bats came out with it. When they were stimulated by the bright sunlight outside, they immediately fell downwards.

Ronan spread out his mental power and scanned the surroundings, but found no signs of anyone else passing by.

After taking out the "Book of Spirit Lake" and determining the return route, he set off without stopping for a moment.

"This time when I return to Linghu, I will condense all the remaining soul symbols in one go."

"Selling myself to that wizard genius in the deep sea... I don't know how many resources I can get in return."

Ronan was silently calculating in his mind while flying.

Suddenly at this moment, a suppressed and low roar of a wild beast came from a distance.

Accompanied by a spatial fluctuation so strong that it was still clear when it reached his side.

Ronan instantly raised his body and looked in the direction where the sound and waves came from.

Soon, he saw a strange monster as big as a mountain, flying high into the sky, accompanied by countless hurricanes and tornadoes.

With a lion's head, a goat's body, long tails of black scorpions and poisonous snakes, and huge bat-like wings, it looks like a living dark red bronze sculpture that has walked out of the pages of a legendary book!
On the back of this huge ancient monster, there was a lonely, dazzling figure that Ronan was very familiar with.

Juventus!

Ronan's pupils shrank slightly, and then he saw that under the feet of Juventus riding the Chimaera-blooded monster, the two semi-circular stone peaks were collapsing rapidly. The extremely strong space fluctuations were also coming from the middle of the two collapsed stone peaks.

"Juventus also entered that secret treasure-transmitting space?!"

"He took the last hollow stone I had left!"

Ronan slowly lowered his rising body, carefully concealing his breath, and watched Juventus go away.

The time interval between him coming out of the space and Juventus entering was so short that it was almost like the beginning and the end.

There are such coincidences in the world.
"Luckily I didn't run into this guy head-on in space."

Ronan's eyes flickered.

He had a head-on encounter with Juventus once before, and he had "offended" the other party. If they met again under such circumstances, and with interests involved, the other party might directly attack him.

With a gap of an entire realm and the suppression of the seventh-level first-generation bloodline, he has no chance of being a match for Juventus.

Ronan did not forget that in the entry selection, Juventus received a nine-star rating in the Magic Tower!

"I really have to thank the goddess of luck for my favor this time. I was spared from unnecessary trouble."

If I had not chosen to leave a hollow stone, the situation might have been different.

I can only say that everything is the best arrangement.

As Ronan was thinking, two figures in gray robes suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

The two seemed to be attracted by the spatial fluctuations and the voice of Chimera, and cast inquiring glances at him after seeing him.

Ronan didn't stay any longer and left the place directly.

On top of the towering stone peaks, a man in a grey robe slowly withdrew his gaze from a rapidly receding figure.

His gaze turned back to the direction where Chimera left.

"The beginning of Linghu."

A gray-robed man spoke in a low voice: "Follow the footsteps of Heramus, in the Hollow Mountain, the Hollow Temple, take the Hollow Stone
There are already many prophecies left by the old prophet that match his.

"It seems that Juventus is the one we are looking for, the one in the prophecy."

"As the son of the Dark Witch King, he possesses unparalleled talent and talent. If this continent really needs someone to turn the tide, that person can only be Juventus."

A gray-robed man exclaimed.

"Don't jump to conclusions. The new prophet has given us plenty of time. Let's wait and see."

"What's the next prophecy?"

One of the gray-robed men asked.

The companion carefully took out an exquisitely shaped box and opened it. Inside the box, a square-sized piece of parchment was quietly placed.

However, this time, there was no text on the parchment, only a simple pattern.

The gray-robed man holding the box picked up the parchment and squinted his eyes to examine it carefully in the sunlight.

"It looks like a strange black snake."

"Do you think this pattern symbolizes the second tail of the Chimaera under Juventus?"

"maybe"

The two gray-robed men talked in low voices as their figures gradually faded and finally disappeared completely into the air bit by bit.

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