After a full month, everyone walked out of the vast dry forest.
The traces of the road under my feet gradually became clear.
On both sides, there are more and more huge building debris buried in black dirt.
The towers that once towered into the sky and were adorned with dragon-shaped sculptures are now left with a twisted skeleton tilted towards the sky.
Apparently, they have arrived at the fringe ruins of a once magnificent city.
"It's here."
She pulled Liu Qian's ash-stained sleeves and reminded in a low voice.
During the days of getting along, Liu Qian's higher Valyrian language improved rapidly and he was able to communicate.
Liu Qian stopped, followed the direction Jelena was going, and looked intently into the thick fog ahead.
The first thing that catches your eye is a giant gate rising from the ground like a mountain.
It is made of countless huge black stones with spiral swirl patterns, each of which is larger than you can imagine.
The stone gate is majestic and magnificent, and the erosion of time has left deep black stains on the white stone surface.
Huge cracks crisscrossed, and some places were covered with thick green moss, adding a bit of weirdness and dilapidation.
On both sides of the giant gate, the ancient city wall, also made of black boulders, stretches endlessly to the left and right sides in the mist.
The walls were covered in huge impact dents, charred blacks from flames, and horrific gaps left by magical explosions.
Many lots have completely collapsed, forming huge gravel slopes.
But the remaining part is still tall and thick, and it is endless.
This is the entrance to Tria?
Liu Qian was shocked.
It is just a city gate, tall and majestic like the Great Wall of Despair.
This is just a city north of the former Valyrian Fortress of Freedom.
Valyria in its heyday, its power and glory are simply unimaginable.
Jerina's purple eyes behind the gap in her helmet glanced at Liu Qian with a shocked face.
She didn't say anything, just raised her finger to the bottom of the huge stone door, an arched entrance that could only accommodate a few people in parallel.
The entrance was embedded in the base of the magnificent giant door, like a trivial wound on the behemoth.
"Welcome to Tria,"
Jelena's voice penetrated through her face armor, cold and uneventful.
Her tone was inaudible, whether it was a welcome or a declaration.
Walking out of the oppressive doorway tunnel, my eyes suddenly opened up.
A huge wide street stretches straight into the depths of the city, and the floor is paved with countless unusually cut white marble slabs.
The slate was as smooth as a mirror, and even though it was covered with thin ashes, it still reflected a lead-gray shimmer.
On both sides of the street are magnificent buildings made of white boulders.
Most of them are square and heavy, up to tens of feet high.
There are obvious traces of repair on the building, the cracks are filled with lime and condensed, and the walls are replaced with bricks.
The Doomsday destroyed the place, but the Trians rebuilt it.
As they walked towards the center of the city, the scenery became very different.
The originally tall and majestic square building was gradually replaced by collapsed ruins.
Countless white marble blocks were randomly thrown and stacked on top of each other, forming intimidating gravel hills.
Walking in between, Liu Qian felt like he was walking in the cemetery of a giant, silently telling the horror of the catastrophe that buried the glorious civilization.
"Why aren't these buildings rebuilt?" Liu Qian asked.
Janice explained: "These are all temples, where the former clergy of Tria would pray and praise the gods. "
"Temple? Do you believe in the gods of Valyria? "
"Everything, Valyria is a city-state of freedom of belief, all the gods in the world can find a place here, in addition to the gods of Valyria, there are also the King of Light, the Seven Gods, the Weaver of Karma, the Three Headed Gods, the Night Lion, and the gods of the Forest Walker's faith, etc."
When Liu Qian heard this, he marveled at Valyria's tolerance, perhaps this was the Dragon King's self-confidence.
Everyone spent a lot of effort to come to the end of the Pale Street.
Here rises the Wizard Tower of Tria, which is thick and dark, with a diameter of two or three hundred feet.
The spire pierced the lead ash canopy and was immersed in smoke, and the height was unfathomable.
A man's voice with a little teasing greeted him.
"Jerina, I didn't expect you to come back safely, you weren't hurt, were you?"
Liu Qian followed the reputation.
I saw an extremely burly and tall man slowly walking out of a group of guards dressed in red copper armor.
He also had long, molten silver hair, a signature among Valyrians, neatly tied back to reveal an angular face, and a broad-edged longsword with an ornate lattice hung from his waist, with the same runes looming in its scabbard.
The most eye-catching thing is the red copper full-body armor of the same style as Jerena, and the surface of the armor is also etched with intricate spiral patterns and ancient hieroglyphs.
"Don't be a fake person, Thales."
Jelena's voice was like ice: "I met an outsider outside this time, and I need to report to Lord Blood Witch." "
Thales followed Jelena's gaze and looked at Liu Qian.
The oriental characteristics of black hair and black eyes are particularly eye-catching among the Tria people with silver and gold hair.
He looked Liu Qian up and down, with a contemptuous smile: "Another outsider, look at this as a good worker." "
"By the way, my warrior found a chimera in the south, and there are some scales and claws that have changed, so it's best to pay attention when you go out of the city recently, don't die outside."
Jelena said coldly.
Thales' face was shocked, and then he shook his head, and said in a mean tone: "I'm afraid I'm disappointing you, I won't go out of the city recently, and even if I go out, I won't get hurt easily, after all, I won't take my sister with me." "
Jelena glared at him viciously, and the air was filled with strong hostility.
At this moment, a young man in a robe and a pale face shouted from the steps of the Wizard's Tower:
"The great blood wizard of Tria, Lord Osarion let the outsider in!"
Liu Qian almost understood the meaning and walked up the steps, and Jelena on the side also wanted to follow, but was blocked by Thales:
"The Blood Witch only let him in alone."
Jelena frowned and stepped back.
Janice gently shook her sister's arm: "Sister, he'll be fine, right? "
Jelena touched Janice and comforted her: "Don't worry, he will come out." "
But in fact, she was also a little worried.
Thales interjected at this time: "After coming out, we have to work hard, there are still many fortifications on the city wall that need to be cleaned, only we can't." "
...
Following the young man, Liu Qian entered the tower.
Through the space inside the heavy metal gates, Liu Qian came to a huge and palpitating rotunda, surrounded by stone walls covered with fluorescent gems, reflecting everything in the hall clearly.
"Master Ossarion asked you to wait here for a while, and he will come right away."
After the young man finished speaking, he left the hall, leaving Liu Qian alone.
Liu Qian began to look at the hall, the whole hall was empty, with no tables and chairs, and no ornaments.
Only the surrounding black stone walls are painted with four huge frescoes.
Liu Qian looked at the mural.
The background color of the black stone mural is red.
In the first mural, countless people prostrate on the ground, kneeling and saluting the seven figures in the center, and the seven figures are dressed in different clothes, including white, topaz, sky blue, jade and purple, and there is a larger and burly figure in the middle, composed of two pure colors: black and white.
What are these people doing?
Liu Qian continued to observe the second mural.
In the red background of the mural, people walked in an exaggerated span, as if they were running, and as if they were fleeing, with horrified expressions on their faces, and behind them was a huge black square building, painted with a messy red, like blood.
His brows furrowed and he continued to look at the third mural.
There is a clear gap between the third mural and the second, exposing the dark stone.
The content inside was a group of silver-haired and purple-eyed people and a group of people wearing horn helmets intertwined and entangled, posing in an unsightly pose.
Liu Qian carefully studied the postures of some of these people, well, the silver-haired and purple-eyed ones were all men, and the horned people were all women.
Is this the origin of the Valyrians?
Liu Qian continued to look back, and the fourth mural followed the stroke of the previous one with a horned man, and it was the silver-haired and purple-eyed Valyrian ancestors under more than a dozen lava volcanoes.
Some people cut stone with flame magic, while others used precision tools to move heavy white marble to build magnificent buildings.
Towering spires grow like bamboo shoots in the city, white and jade temples crawl like a giant beast in the heart of the city, the Dragon King's Council, which symbolizes the pinnacle of Valyria's power, is full, the sky is filled with dragons circling, and slaves are mining ore in the volcanic lava.
It is like a thriving scene.
After Liu Qian read these four murals, the last two were easy to understand, but the first two were not understood.
However, he still found a strange place, except for one empty space between the second and third murals, the other murals were connected to each other.
He rubbed the blank space as dark as night with his hand, and the smooth black stone brought a hint of coolness.
Was there a mural painted before this blank space?
If so, what is it?
Liu Qian asked silently in his heart.
"It's a long night..."
A hoarse and dry old voice sounded directly behind Liu Qian's back, startling him into a cold sweat.