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Chapter 215 How could these ruins be deceiving people?

Chapter 215 How could these ruins be deceiving people?
Between the temporary camp and the gate of the ruins, the Mercenary Guild sent people to clear a wide road, using magic to summon boulders to fill it, turning it into a stone-paved road.

The stone-paved road remains lush and green on both sides.

In addition to the temporary camp leading to the gate of the ruins, the temporary camp, together with the outside world, the mercenary guild, and nearby towns, are also working together to build roads in full swing.

The lords of nearby towns were able to seize this opportunity and cooperate with the mercenary guild to turn their towns into temporary mercenary markets, providing various supplies and services to mercenaries who came to conquer the ancient ruins.

Ross's phantom appeared beside Celia, looking at the changes made in the past few days, feeling a sense of déjà vu.

"Isn't this just like those trendy tourist spots that suddenly become popular online? Something from the local area becomes popular online, attracts a large number of tourists, and the local government starts construction to create a formulaic trendy food street."

"What are popular spots for social media check-ins?" Celia asked curiously.

Ross laughed and said, "It's a lord management model from a thousand years ago, just like how a large number of mercenaries flock to ancient ruins now. The only difference is that ancient ruins have benefits, while trendy tourist spots are purely for satisfying vanity."

"Oh." Celia seemed to understand but not quite.

"It's so lively here," Elena's voice came from outside. Celia looked up and realized that they had arrived at the gate of the ruins.

This ancient site is different from the lost lighthouse.

What came into view was a huge stone gate, at least three stories high.

Numerous mysterious runes were drawn on the stone gate.

Elena said, "I memorized the runes on the door before and asked someone about them. They are runes used to activate the door to open. Generally speaking, a low-level magic crystal can provide enough magic power to open this kind of door, but this door requires a pure magic crystal... It seems a bit like they're trying to trick people into putting magic power on it."

Celia carefully examined the mysterious runes that appeared on the door. Just as Elena had said, they were simply rune patterns used to drive the stone door to rise and open.

However, there were many subtle differences, which Celia couldn't quite make out; they were too ancient.

She chose to ask Ross.

Ross gave an affirmative answer: "Those tiny differences are meant to lock the Pure Magic Crystal in place, allowing it to continuously supply power. However, the effect is rather weak. It can be forcibly pulled down, but once pulled down, the door immediately loses its power supply and quickly falls. If it is not pulled down, the Pure Magic Crystal will slowly rise along with the stone door until it disappears into the gap above along with the stone door."

Celia looked up and, sure enough, saw a small hole in the gap above the stone door that was meant for it to rise.

The hole was right above the socket where the pure magic crystal was inlaid.

"This ruin is so cunning, it even tricks people out of magic crystals."

Celia was dumbfounded.

After a moment, he asked, "If I stick the staff to the stone door to supply energy, I won't be able to get in when it rises. If I do get in, can I outrun the speed at which the stone door falls?"

Ross laughed and said, "If you want to know, try sticking the staff on there and see."

"Let's try again tomorrow... Can this rune be changed? If it could be changed to activate the stone door and open the ruins with just one use, that would be great..."

"It can't be changed. This rune is fixed. When the ruins were designed, the designers anticipated that someone might modify the runes, so they designed all the runes to be interlocked and locked in place, so that they cannot be added or removed."

Celia: "..."

Ross laughed and said, "This is interesting. They're already setting traps before we even go in. The traps inside are definitely not like what Elena said, which are just simple trap puzzles. They'll probably combine monsters to create thrilling traps."

Celia looked at the stone gate. "I suddenly feel that exploring ruins isn't always necessary. This ruin is already so terrifying before we even go in. Once we're inside... who knows what will happen?"

She briefly explained the details of the stone gate to Elena, who nodded in deep agreement, acknowledging Celia's idea.

But she became even more interested: "This ruin is so interesting even before we've gone inside. The trap designs inside must be amazing. I can't wait to go in and explore."

Celia quietly moved one step away from Elena.

She found Elena's mentality strange, but didn't know how to describe it.

Ross described it to her: "This is Dou Aimu." "What is Dou Aimu?"

"A person with masochistic tendencies."

"Oh, yes, that's it, it's similar to Doris."

Elena looked over and asked curiously, "Why are you taking a step back?"

"Cough cough, it's nothing, it's nothing."

"Oh, Celia, why don't we go in and take a look now? We can come out again if it doesn't work!"

Elena paid no attention to Celia's emotional changes; her eyes were fixed on the stone door, and she longed to go inside.

Celia shook her head: "Let's skip it today. I need to set the coordinates for the emergency teleportation scrolls I made so that I won't get lost and unable to get back after going in."

Elena was taken aback: "Why would you need a teleportation scroll to explore ruins? These ruins with traps are easy to conquer, you can just remove them one by one and there won't be any left. Even if you get tired, you can easily return. There are no traps or suddenly appearing puppets on the way back, so you don't have to worry about safety."

"Moreover, even if you have a teleportation scroll, you won't have time to use it if you fail to break the trap. And if you do have time to use it, you won't need something as precious as a teleportation scroll."

Celia nodded: "Teleportation scrolls are indeed very valuable."

In her quest to create two emergency teleportation scrolls that could only be used within ruins, she wasted a hundred scrolls, succeeding only in creating four.

This is the most basic teleportation scroll, its effect is to return to the Overworld from the Warp. It can only be used in the Warp. It is the simplest teleportation scroll, but its quality is close to that of a Tier 4 scroll.

In terms of complexity, it is comparable to a fourth-order scroll.

It's just that the magic and material requirements are lower than those of the fourth tier.

"However, to be reluctant to use something because it is precious, thereby putting yourself in danger, is putting the cart before the horse."

Ignoring Elena's pleading gaze, Celia turned and walked towards the camp.

Elena could only sigh and prepare to follow.

Just then, a loud bang came from the side of the gate.

boom!
The two looked over and saw countless clods of earth bursting out from the side of the mountain.

Many mercenaries who were studying near the stone gate also looked over.

Someone recognized what place it was.

"Isn't that the direction the Eternal Night Mercenary Group is digging their tunnel? Did they dig into a trap?"

"With that commotion, could they all be dead inside?"

"They probably won't die. They love digging tunnels so much, they've seen this kind of thing many times. I just don't know what they've dug up."