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"Are you planning to do something like, 'If you don't pay for the full set of armor right now, I'll deny you the ranking reward?'"

"No, it was given to the first knights of the New Arcadia territory as a token of gratitude and honor."

Herbie didn't realize how strange it was to hear the word "gift" come out of his mouth. Anyway, Greenland was shocked on the spot, and then got into the dilemma of "Did I lose a breastplate?"

"I can give you a discount for your breastplate."

"Forget it. No matter how poor we are, we won't do this." Greenland shook her head. It was better to think about whether it was a loss or not. If Hebi really cashed in, she would feel humiliated.

"Are you sure you don't want it? Armor mixed with orichalcum is quite expensive."

"Orichalcum!? Oriha Steel, a metal imbued with magic, one of the three great magic ores!"

Greenland was like a cat in emergency, its fur stood up in an instant and it jumped onto the ceiling.

"These are the first group of knights under Audrey's command. From now on, whenever they wear armor, they will symbolize Arcadia. How can we not dress in a flashy way?" Herbie raised his head, pleased with Greenland's reaction.

"Are you sure you don't want to discount it?"

"Bend, bend, bend! My waist is broken." Greenland immediately landed, then licked his face and tried to ask for more. "But can I exchange it for something else, like weapons made of orichalcum?"

Orichalcum is a special material that is in short supply and price. If you really sell it at a discount, you will be a big loser.

"Yes, you can even request a greatsword. Orichalcum is enough."

"No, no, just equip this equipment with some decorations." Greenland took out his branch staff.

This naturally formed branch, seemingly born to be a staff, bore a few scratches, as if from something pulling on it. Only a special metal like orichalcum could be used to repair this staff.

"Well, you can give it to Hader now."

"...You are so generous that I doubt the origin of this mountain copper." Greenland became worried and clenched the most expensive equipment on his body, fearing that it would be confiscated as stolen goods one day.

Herbie rolled his eyes.

"The Giant Kingdom has been preserving a batch of ancient mountain copper ore, and no one knows where it came from. But now that Herbi Hermes knows about it, of course I have to get it. How can I let such a treasure be buried in obscurity?"

"Is it really stolen? Or was it cheated?"

"It's a reward for providing a huge amount of supplies to the Giant's Defense Line." Herbie waved his hand and made an expression that said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will lose my special treatment." Greenland immediately gave in and obediently handed over his staff.

Greenland was reluctant to let go when she let go, missing the poor days when she had used the staff.

"But those ores..."

Herbie pinched his chin, shook Greenland's branch staff, and his eyes swayed along with the dry apple.

"It seems to have some remarkable history."

Chapter 171 The world turns upside down, the upside-down city

"How long are you going to keep doing this?"

Chicken turned around and saw Blaze making a fuss.

He stomped his feet from time to time, looked up from time to time, and walked close to the wall, as if he was being carried by someone to fly for the first time, and he was always worried that he would fall.

"I trust my instincts as a land creature... Never mind, just think of me as being afraid of this environment." Blaze couldn't explain it with his own feelings, so he simply expressed his uneasiness openly.

"If you really have doubts about this, why don't we solve the problem quickly and then ask the two knights guarding the gate? Oh... really!" The chicken simply flapped its wings and flew to Blaze's head, and sat down.

"How do you feel about this fusion state, which looks like it has wings on its head? Do you feel relieved?"

"A little bit." Blaze shook his head.

It was a truly magical experience, as my head felt like a real egg being hatched. And because I was wearing the helmet, it felt even more like an egg.

But thanks to this, the feeling of floating and crisis has indeed disappeared, and I can walk much more steadily.

"The best option would be to find the [Royal Noble Red Robe], the next best option would be the [Cloth Soaked in the Blood of Heroes], so how should we find it? Wait for those undead monsters to attack me?"

The chicken chirped about the purpose of this expedition. Like Blaze, she couldn't wait to see more new things.

"I heard that the undead monsters here have been repeating the battles they fought in their previous lives, looking for soldiers from the enemy country, so they won't deliberately attack the living. Of course, if they actively attack, that's another matter." Blaze explained quite skillfully. He had said this to many strangers.

Unfortunately, this tomb complex belongs to the ancient Giant Kingdom, so there is no detailed map and the layout inside is still unknown.

Even the map displayed on the blessing was completely black. But there was no need to worry about losing your way back, as the route you had taken would light up on the blessing.

Ka La Ka La...

A skeleton with a stiff body walked over from the other side of the passage. The skeleton was much taller than that of a normal Giens person.

Although the skeleton monsters were extremely weak, they were exceptionally ferocious. The foundation of a living being was its own flesh and blood, and without flesh and blood, the skeleton monsters were even more bloodthirsty than the average undead.

In the past, skeleton monsters would rush over from thousands of miles away the moment a living person appeared, like sharks smelling blood.

But the skeleton monster in front of him just staggered to Blaze, glanced at Blaze and continued moving forward.

[Ancient Giant Bloodline Skeleton LV35]

The skeleton of an ancient Giaiens, its soul and flesh dissipated, leaving only the desire to seek out its enemies. Perhaps knowing the battle was long over, it only sought out its enemies and would no longer fight.

Blaze didn't try to communicate. Although it was sad, no matter how great a warrior was in life, after becoming a skeleton, he became a monster that couldn't even organize language and was lower than a beast.

So Blaze couldn't help but look back and take a closer look at the skeleton of the Giens man.

"Don't look, don't look. Even if you want to perform your duties as a Night Watchman, it's useless." The chicken flapped its wings and forced Blaze to move forward.

"It didn't hesitate. It was extremely clear about its goal. The moment the skeletal body completely collapsed, it would be liberated."

"What exactly happened at that time?" Blaze sighed.

Ancient battlefields are often filled with all sorts of ferocious undead monsters, each with red eyes and a lust for killing. It's no surprise that underground labyrinths and the emergence of labyrinth masters are thus formed.

Undead monsters like the one in the [Royal Unknown Tomb] that were so peaceful were rare indeed. This meant that the war that year was more about helplessness than anything else.

"Just fighting to survive." Ji said lightly, as if she had witnessed the battle with her own eyes.

So Blaze asked simply.

"You know what? Riddle answers are forbidden."

"Actually, there's nothing to describe this matter with a riddle." The chicken swayed its body from side to side, causing Blaze under it to sway uncontrollably from side to side.

"The world is about to be turned upside down. Two countries living on the border, which used to get along well, will have to fight for the chance to survive."

"The winner will have a bright future, while the loser will go to hell." The chicken's voice was so low at the end that it made people shudder.

"If there's a real culprit, it's the long-dead Titan. It leaped hard at the edge of the world."

The world turned upside down.

This word appears repeatedly in the words of ancient beings, as if it is a universal symbol of great disaster. However, its universality to this extent makes people feel that there is another hidden meaning.

The chicken's explanation was vague, and he just stammered about the scene of the earth collapsing and the mountains rising.

Blaze understood one thing, that is, the chicken had only seen the scene of upheaval, but could not understand its meaning. The chicken also understood this, but was too shy to express it.

“Everything has turned upside down.”

Blaze muttered the word, remembering the coordinates from the old lion.

Perhaps the world turning upside down is a phenomenon that can only be understood by reaching a high enough altitude and looking down at the whole world from a bird's eye view.

It would probably be an incredible and amazing sight.

But Blazer didn't want to watch it. If the upheaval meant that two friendly countries had to go to war, and one side had to bear the lives of the entire nation of the other, then this spectacle would not make people laugh.

tick-

Blaze looked up as he heard the sound of dripping water. It was wet soil.

Perhaps because he was paying too much attention to the environment, Blaze noticed that the internal passage seemed a little... upside down?

They seemed to be walking on the ceiling of a huge building.

The thought couldn't be shaken off, so Blaze kept looking up at the ceiling.

As Blaze and the chicken went deeper, the Giant Kingdom no longer had the capacity to lay exquisite stone bricks, and the true appearance of the nameless tombs gradually appeared in front of Blaze and the chicken.

Ahead of them was still an endless expanse of gray stone bricks, but when they looked up, they saw a huge city.

A city hanging upside down on a dome.

No, considering Blaze's own conjecture, they were the ones standing on the dome upside down.

Where exactly was this [Royal Unknown Tomb] built?

Chapter 172 Universal Shield Jump

From time to time, skeleton monsters would fall from the dome. Huge human skeleton monsters would wander around in confusion, searching for their targets, while some skeletons would stand still, looking up at the inverted city in the dome.

Standing there, the skeleton monster, seemingly an ordinary human from its bones, was likely a native of this kingdom. Having fallen and left its homeland, it followed the instincts of the dead and looked back at its home.

The gigantic, wandering human skeletons are the skeleton monsters that the Giaiens transform into after death.

"Come to think of it, the stranger said that the drop rate of the two items, Red Robe, is very low." Blaze looked at each skeleton monster and passed by them.

Although they were equipped with the equipment they had in life, unfortunately, the props Blaze needed were not on them. These skeletons were just ordinary soldiers, wearing only standard cloth armor.

"Is it because those noble knights in red robes are all in that city?"

Blaze looked up at the upside-down city in the sky, but his vision was limited and he couldn't see that far.

But chickens have good eyesight.

"There seems to be something fighting up there, but they seem to be able to stand directly on the ground, which is the ceiling for us."

"Gravity magic? Can undead creatures use gravity magic?" Blaze looked at the city through vision sharing. There was indeed a deep purple light flashing between the streets, which was exclusive to gravity magic.

"It's more likely that the dead can learn gravity magic more easily." Chicken scratched Blaze's armor with his claws to divert Blaze's attention back.

Now is the time for the noble country chicken to explain the settings to the outdated country boy.

"The talent for magic comes from the soul's perception of magic. Some souls can feel fire, some souls can feel lightning, but few living souls can feel gravity."

"Because life has been placed on the earth since birth, and the body containing the soul is always under gravity, it is impossible to understand gravity." Blaze continued what Chicken said. Although he had not been away from Balkan City for long, his horizons had broadened a lot.

"As the saying goes, we only realize the value of something after we lose it. A dead body cannot serve as a vessel for the soul. Without the constraints of gravity, the soul learns gravity magic in order to stay on the earth."

"Well, you're a teachable kid. Almost everything is right." Ji stroked the side of his face and, imitating the bespectacled intellectuals, said, "To put it simply, after death, one either ascends to heaven or descends to hell. These two extreme changes make the soul feel the pull of gravity."

"Those guys seem to be high-level undead warriors who have learned gravity magic. If they don't learn it or their magic power is exhausted, they will fall down."

"That means we can talk to those guys up there." Blaze stroked his chin and casually asked, "Why don't you know gravity magic?" while thinking about how to get up there.

Blaze just asked casually. Normally, the chicken would probably blush and defend itself, but unexpectedly, the chicken replied calmly.

"Because I died too young."

"Really?" Blaze put down his hands and suddenly asked, "Is that guy a bad guy?"

Blaze asked the person who caused the chicken to die.

"It spoke ill of me to my friends and deceived my friends into killing me. Now it is probably taking my place." The chicken smiled. The pride deep in her soul made her downplay the murder as a clumsy clown performance.

"Well, he's a bad guy, so there's nothing to worry about." Blaze nodded, raised his hand and patted the chicken's belly, and joked, "If he was killed because you were too arrogant and angered others, then I have to apologize for you before I kill him."

"Tell me, what's that guy's name?"

"I won't lie to you, so I will tell you honestly. You are too weak now and I can't tell you." Chicken's voice became extremely soft. It didn't sound like he was talking about his mortal enemy at all. He just acted as a prop to enhance the fun in the journey with Blaze.

"I hope that you are the only one who will avenge me. I will give you all I have for the honor of avenging me."

"Then I must become a Knight quickly."

The chicken insisted, but Blaze didn't force it and started moving his body on the spot.

"You're not planning to jump from such a high place, are you?"

"It's such a short distance, how come I can't jump up?"

Blaze refuted the chicken with his actions. He took out his shield and rushed towards the beam that seemed to be the inverted ceiling, performing a shield jump with perfect perfection.

Almost in an instant, Blaze approached the roof of one of the buildings in the inverted city and punched into the roof to stabilize his body.

The chicken, which was frightened and flew away by Blaze's sudden action, arrived late and shouted angrily beside Blaze.

"Didn't we agree that it would only be used in critical moments?"

"Don't be angry, and this is a critical moment." Blaze chuckled twice and slowly came to the edge of the roof using an inverted walking method that was extremely strange for this inverted city.

"One day I'll develop a flying ability that's even faster than this weird skill."