"What is that?" Leo asked, pointing to the two rows of statues erected on both sides of the street not far away.

I saw that the two rows of statues were neither statues of gods nor heroes. Instead, they were in the form of a monster. This monster had a slender body like a snake, a somewhat human-like head, and a pair of long ears hanging on both sides.

The large, slightly bulging eyes are a bit abrupt, and the most eye-catching feature is the two rows of incisors in its mouth, which are extremely difficult to see.

This ugly statue erected in such a magnificent humanoid city will make people feel incongruous no matter how you look at it.

"That's the Abyss Serpent." Seredor seemed to be very familiar with this monster and also hated it very much, with strong disgust in his tone.

"Abyss Serpent?" Leo was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that the name sounded familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

After quickly searching for memory data, Leo found a record that recorded the Abyss Serpent. However, this record was not in the world of Velen, but in the cosmic species record of the Earth Federation.

In the early days of the Earth Federation's exploration of the universe, in addition to purchasing cosmic materials from advanced civilizations, most of the time they sent out a large number of exploration fleets. These fleets were official or private. Large fleets may have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of ships.

people, while a small exploration ship may only have one and a dozen people.

These exploration fleets have encountered various events and witnessed various cosmic species. They all recorded what they saw and heard in the recorders of the spacecraft. After returning to the Federation, the records will be turned in based on

The amount of the bonus is determined by recording the contents. Some contents will make the exploration fleet rich overnight, while others will make the exploration fleet lose nothing.

Among these exploration fleets, there was a small exploration spacecraft composed of fifty people. After entering the subspace, its navigator was damaged and it entered an unknown space. Before they found the unknown space and left it, they conducted some research on that space.

Exploration, and successfully brought the exploration records back to the Earth Federation.

However, these people's exploration records of that space are extremely controversial in the Earth Federation, because there are too many incredible contents in them, and it feels like they are the imagination of some kind of mental patient.

The reason why we think this is because all the exploration team members who returned to Earth were crazy. Everyone was surprised that a group of lunatics could fly a spaceship back to the Federation and dock it perfectly at the airport.

These records about the unknown space are full of all kinds of strange things and species, and among all the things and species, there is not one abyss snake with big front teeth, red eyes, and knowing the federal language that makes people feel incredible.

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The big abyss snake suddenly appeared in front of the exploration team. It did not attack the exploration team, but chatted with the exploration team some words. These words were very strange. They sounded like some sentences that were pieced together and were confusing and difficult to understand.

, there are many illogical words such as "I'll chop off my head to buy a bag of fruit", so the federal records examiner at the time did not pay attention to these contents, but placed them in the public information area for everyone to review.

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But after a few years, things suddenly became a little weird, because some boring decryption enthusiasts became interested in these records. They thought it was a coded language, so they collaborated with each other to re-edit and decipher these texts, and

Really let them crack some of the stuff out.

Originally, just cracking these contents would not cause any sensation, but then some things that happened in the Earth Federation were surprisingly consistent with these cracked words, which made them couldn't help but think that these words were the language of the Earth Federation, so more and more people

Joining the cracking team eventually attracted the attention of the Earth Federation.

Later, the federation blocked this record on the grounds that it could easily cause social unrest, and defined those cracking groups as illegal gatherings and dispersed them.

But the matter did not end there. Later, a series of riots suddenly occurred in the remote colonies of the Federation. The people who caused the riots claimed to be believers of the Abyss Serpent, and these people were members of the cracking team.

The riots started suddenly, and they quickly seized the power of those colonies as if they had been planned for a long time. By the time the Earth Federation sent a fleet to counter the rebellion, the believers of the Abyss Serpent had already integrated all the combat capabilities of the colonies, and joined forces with the Earth

The Federation began a war that lasted decades.

In the end, the people in the colony were unable to resist the endless stream of Earth Federation fleets and ended in failure. The most distressing thing was that the Abyss Serpent believers who fell into despair frantically used all the ammunition in their inventory to bombard the star core of the colony.

Eventually, changes occurred on the colonial planet.

During the mutation, the colonial planet not only entered a period of decline early and could no longer adapt to human habitation, but even the spacecraft approaching the planet encountered the impact of the supermagnetic field. Most of the spacecraft were destroyed by this impact, and even a few were not destroyed.

It cannot operate normally. Everyone on the spacecraft can wait to die in this space coffin. As for the people in the colony, all the people have died, and no survivors can be found.

This incident had a great impact on the Federation, so much so that more than 4,000 laws of the Federation were revised, and all people and things related to the Abyss Serpent would be regarded as a priority by the Federation. This situation continued until Leo's era.

Leo had received missions related to the followers of the Abyssal Serpent more than once, but in his opinion, these missions were usually framed by someone to eliminate dissenters and had nothing to do with the Abyssal Serpent.

What he didn't expect now was that in this place where everything ended, he would actually hear the name of the Abyss Serpent again, and also see the statue of the Abyss Serpent. From the striking features of the statue, it was not difficult for him to judge that the two should be

The same type of existence, and the space that the expedition team entered by mistake may be the abyss.

Regarding the catastrophe in the federal colony that year, many years had passed when Leo was created, and the matter had long been downplayed, and those so-called followers of the Abyss Serpent were also framed, so he himself viewed the Abyss Serpent

He is very indifferent and has not studied the relevant information carefully. This also makes his current understanding of the Abyss Serpent only limited to conceptual things such as knowing how to confuse people's hearts, being able to predict, and being very dangerous, and there is no other substantive and useful content.

"It sounds like you know this Abyss Serpent very well. Can you tell me what it is?" Although Leo can't find any useful information in the federal database, there is another person next to him who knows the Abyss Serpent very well.

People can ask questions, and they will naturally not be stingy in asking questions.

Seledor seemed to be planning to tell Leo about the Abyss Serpent to remind Leo to be careful, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he immediately explained: "The Abyss Serpent has always been a legend in my hometown.

, it is the most evil existence in the world. It has a mouth that can confuse people. Anyone who hears its words will be affected by it, have a distorted personality, and eventually become a monster. There are many in my hometown.

Countries have perished under the bewitchment of the Serpent of the Abyss." At this point, he paused and said in a faint tone: "I heard that there are people in my hometown who have been bewitched by the Serpent of the Abyss and are creating turmoil. I don't know the current situation.

how's it going?"

After hearing Serendor's words, Leo was silent for a moment, turned to look at the statues of the Abyss Serpent, and said: "You said that this royal city where the gods live will be destroyed, could it be that the Abyss Serpent did it secretly?

"

"It's very possible." Seredor nodded in agreement without hesitation: "I think the princess may be the incarnation of the serpent of the abyss. Because after the princess came, the gods left the royal city, and the royal city became chaotic, and eventually

It became what it is now.”

Leo listened to Seredor's words, walked to the empty armor on the side, and picked up a long sword on the ground. Although he didn't know that he had experienced a long time here, coupled with the various invisible forces and climate around him,

Corrosion, the long sword has been severely decayed, but from some areas that have not yet completely decayed, it can be seen that this long sword should be very sharp and strong when it is intact, no worse than the special armor plates used on space battleships.

How many.

"This should be the Roderick Knight Sword." Seredor walked to Leo and said: "Rodrick Knight is the prototype and model of all knights. Whenever the world falls into chaos, the royal city will send a team

The most elite Roderick knights calmed down the chaos in the world, and then they entrusted the world to the people they trusted, and then left and returned to the royal city. Loyalty, courage, piety, humility, benevolence, fearlessness, compassion, these beautiful words were placed in Roderick.

There is no sense of exaggeration on the body of the knight." As he spoke, he squatted down and touched the still exquisite patterns on the surface of the decayed armor, and sighed: "I didn't expect that such a great knight would all die here because of the civil war.

.”

"Everything will eventually be destroyed. No matter how powerful Knight Roderick is, he cannot escape the end of destruction." Just when Seredor sighed, an old voice suddenly reached the ears of Leo and Seredor.

, the two of them couldn't help but be shocked, and both looked towards the place where the sound came from.

Suddenly, an old man wearing a robe and carrying a crystal lamp suddenly appeared on the street in the distance and staggered toward the two of them.

Leo found that his mental network seemed to have lost its effectiveness on this old man. He could not feel the old man's existence at all. This was not due to shielding, interference, etc., but because his mental network passed directly through the old man's body.

Although Leo did not feel hostility from the old man, he still turned the twins into the strongest sacrificial knife mode and looked at the old man warily.

Although the old man's expression was always calm, the moment Leo turned the twins into sacrificial knife mode, his movement speed paused slightly, and a trace of surprise and fear flashed across his expression. This scene was naturally noticed by those who were already paying attention to the other party.

Leo noticed it.

Different from Leo's vigilance, Seledor still looked carefree, standing beside Leo with the exaggerated sword on his shoulder, without any defensive movements.

After the old man moved near Leo and the two, he stopped, then nodded towards them, and said: "The sound of the little devil flapping its wings can be heard even in the Hall of Silence in the royal city. I guess there are new guests.

So I came to take a look, and now it seems that my guess was indeed right." After saying that, he saluted the two of them very appropriately and said: "Hello, you two, I am the guide of the royal city, if you don't mind

If so, you can follow me to the safe prayer hall, there are also some outsiders there, I think you should have something in common to talk about."

Regarding this inexplicable invitation, Renault had no intention of agreeing, but just when he was about to refuse, Seledor on the side took the initiative and said: "Okay, you can lead the way!"

After hearing what Seredor said, the old man turned around and walked forward along the way he came from without waiting for Leo to make a decision. Seredor turned to Leo and said, "I will explain this on the way.

Follow up first! Otherwise, you won’t get lost.”

After saying that, he quickly followed the old man.

Although Leo was a little puzzled by Seredor's actions, he had no intention of questioning and followed him.

In this way, the two of them, led by the old man, walked through the battlefield-like streets and quickly moved towards the center of the city.

On the way, Serendor did not worry about the old man leading the way, and directly explained to Leo: "The knight I followed mentioned the old man with the lantern in the royal city. When outsiders enter the royal city, the old man with the lantern will appear.

in front of him, and then lead the outsiders to the only safe place in the royal city. In that safe place, you will not encounter any danger, and there is a pile of unextinguished bonfires there. As long as you are still alive and return to the bonfire, even if you are injured

Even the most fatal injury will be healed quickly."

"Is he a survivor of the royal city?" Leo was silent for a moment after hearing this, pointed to the old man in front of him, and asked.

"Yes and no." Seredor gave a vague answer, and immediately explained: "No one knows what he is, they just know that it is impossible to kill him by any method. Some people say that he is actually the last one in the royal city.

The priest, because he saw the destruction of the royal city and fell into the place where all this ended. All the former heroes have now become walking corpses. He felt desperate for this, so he transformed into a lantern guide to guide the outsiders who came to the royal city.

, find out the secret of the royal city step by step, and finally destroy the royal city completely, ending the suffering of all the living dead and embers."

The entire royal city is in the shape of a cone, and each floor is blocked by a huge wall that cannot be climbed by ordinary people. The two Leos are at the bottom. Looking up, they can't see the real royal city at the top. Here.

It should be the civilian area of ​​the royal city. The surrounding buildings are not only crowded, but also disorganized, as if every gap is filled in, leaving only long and narrow streets that can barely tolerate passage.

However, as the group of people got closer and closer to the shelter, the street became a lot wider, and the buildings on both sides of the street became more regular. When they turned a corner, the scene in front of them suddenly became clear. It was not a majestic building.
Chapter completed!