The "Slave War" broke out between the 9th and 10th centuries of the Apocalypse, which means that the history of Doomburg can be traced back to about 800 years ago, and its historical heritage is several times that of the city of Coran.
It is speculated that the first owner of Doomburg was most likely a powerful goblin slave owner at the time, so he built a war castle here.
Its geographical location is unique, just at the end of the Sea Wall Mountains, guarding the land route between the Kingdom of Zilargo and the Kingdom of Dagon.
"It is puzzling why the giant rats and dark rats regard this as their habitat?" As the team went deeper into the dungeon, this question became stronger.
In the long history of Doomburg, countless adventure teams came to explore because of the horror legend, but never found the existence of dark rats.
Even if these adventure teams lacked the ability to detect, they would not have failed to detect such a large group of giant rats.
What's more, as underground creatures, dark rats usually do not appear near the surface.
They must have migrated here recently, so what is their origin?
With these questions, the team continued to move deeper into the dungeon.
Because the giant rats had fled in panic due to the previous "small forbidden spell" explosion, they had disappeared at this moment, and the exploration team did not encounter any attacks along the way.
Finally, when they searched the underground warehouse in the deepest part of the dungeon, they found the source of the problem.
This warehouse, which was originally used to store supplies, was transformed from a natural cave, presenting an irregular space that was slightly semicircular.
Now, the relatively flat rock floor of the warehouse has collapsed by nearly half, revealing a dark hole.
The ‘Golden Level Thief’ squatted on the edge of the collapse, rubbed the broken rock with his fingers, twisted the stone powder on his fingers, and then turned back to say to everyone: “The collapse time of this cave entrance will not exceed half a year, it should be between three and four months.”
As he said that, he sniffed the slightly dull and bad-smelling air in the warehouse again, and added: “The flying head barbarian also entered here!”
Everything seemed to be solved.
A few months ago, the dungeon collapsed for some reason deep in the dungeon, causing a flying head barbarian and a group of giant rats to emerge from the ground.
Everyone looked at each other and said in unison: “Ruins!?”
It is not uncommon for giant rats to appear underground, but the appearance of dark demon rats and flying head barbarians is obviously abnormal.
Most of these supernatural creatures mutate due to certain special environmental factors, especially the flying head barbarian, which is almost inseparable from corpses.
However, where is the corpse underground?
The answer may lie in the explosion of the earth vein more than 1,700 years ago.
In that explosion, countless historical relics sank into the ground under the influence of mysterious forces.
Although Jia Lan had read almost all the books in the library of Komo University during this period, there were only vague myths and legends about 1,700 years ago.
In these myths and legends, many mentioned a strange phenomenon: when the earth vein explosion occurred, the sky collapsed, the earth cracked, the space was broken, and a large amount of mysterious energy buried deep in the earth vein was released.
Huge arcane torrents and elemental tides overflowed from the cracks between heaven and earth, forming an inexplicable phenomenon of heaven and earth.
These mysterious energies infected plants and animals, causing them to mutate unpredictably.
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The entire continent collapsed and broke into pieces, and magnificent cities slowly "sank" into the ground under the influence of mysterious forces.
Please note that the word "sunk" is used here instead of damage.
Jia Lan saw in an ancient biography that some cities "sank" very slowly, even for days or even weeks, as if a pair of mysterious hands pressed them into the ground and covered them with soil.
According to records, individuals with powerful supernatural abilities seemed to disappear collectively under the influence of the huge energy released by the earth vein explosion.
In contrast, civilian groups without such abilities did not suffer significant effects. Instead, they evolved under the influence of elemental invasion and gradually adapted to the high-concentration element environment, thus surviving.
Some religious believers firmly believe that this is a divine punishment from the gods, intended to eliminate the filth and blasphemers in the world and usher in a new era.
However, for "non-believers" like Jia Lan, such statements obviously lack basis and it is difficult to find a reasonable explanation for the time being.
Nevertheless, existing historical materials do show that the unprecedented upheaval more than 1,700 years ago caused many pre-civilization cities to be "buried" underground, forming many relatively well-preserved ruins and underground city clusters.
After the Apocalypse Era, civilization began to revive, and archaeology and exploration quickly became popular industries in emerging civilizations.
It can be said that the new civilization was gradually established on the basis of excavating the remains of pre-civilizations.
The excavation and restoration of any pre-civilization technology will have a profound impact on the new civilization, such as the dwarf's airship technology, the goblin's steam construction technology, and the dwarf's gunpowder technology.
These technologies not only promoted the progress of civilization and accelerated racial integration, but also gave birth to the city-state ruling system, weakened the boundaries between countries and races, and formed a unique civilization model in the new era.
As explorers, archaeologists and mercenary teams gradually explored, the truths that were buried in history gradually surfaced, including creatures buried deep underground in the earth vein explosion.
During the exploration, various strange creatures were discovered one after another, which not only expanded the cognitive boundaries of human beings, but also brought potential threats.
For example, the dark magic rat is one of the most common monsters in underground ruins.
Therefore, when rare creatures such as dark magic rats and flying head barbarians appeared in the dungeon of Doom Castle, there was reason to speculate that there might be unknown ruins hidden underneath.
This discovery made everyone excited, because for them, the ruins meant danger and challenges, but also contained immeasurable wealth and opportunities.
After eliminating a small group of scattered giant rats, all mercenaries including Captain Kenmet quickly got to work.
Even Old Jimmy, who was not a member of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, instinctively used his own experience to begin to explore the ruins hidden under the dungeon warehouse.
The ruins are a circular rock hall, and the collapsed entrance is located right in the center of the hall.
The hall is about ten meters high, and the thickness of the collapsed rock layer is also two or three meters.
As for the specific cause of the rock layer collapse, it is still unknown.
It is particularly puzzling that there has been no earthquake near the Sea Wall Mountains recently.
The floor of the hall is covered with dust and a large amount of collapsed rubble is scattered. The circular walls are carved with murals and reliefs of unknown content, most of which have been mottled and fallen off.
Jia Lan carefully stepped over the rubble and planned to approach the wall to observe the content of the murals in order to determine the origin of the ruins.
However, he stopped as soon as he took a step and reminded everyone to be careful.
His keen intuition detected a strange atmosphere in the circular hall.
However, in the underground ruins, abnormal situations are normal, and it would be disturbing if everything went well.
The mercenaries carefully searched the hall and found scattered bones and rotten weapons in the rubble.
Among them, four relatively complete skeletons fell beside the wall, one of which stood against the wall, with a metal spear pierced through the chest and hung on the wall.
This bronze spear seemed to be of high quality, and it was still in good condition when other metal weapons were rotten.
The 'Golden Level Thief' under Kenmet wanted to pull it out, but was stopped by Jia Lan.
Jia Lan reminded: "It's best not to touch it! Do you know about the undead? Some of the dead's bones and the objects they used in their lifetime may contain their broken souls."
"And the weapons that killed them are more likely to be entrusted with resentment. If living beings rashly touch these items, it is likely to arouse the resentment of the undead and cause them to reactivate."
After listening to Jia Lan's reminder, the 'Golden Thief' withdrew his hand, and the other mercenaries looked at each other.
Although they are all experienced and experienced old mercenaries, they still need to listen to the advice of the magician in places like ruins.
It is inevitable to encounter supernatural phenomena in the exploration of ruins.
They have seen too many tragedies caused by greed, most of which, as Jia Lan said, are caused by rash contact with the relics of undead creatures.
Of course, the main purpose of exploring ruins is still to find treasures.
It is obviously unrealistic to let the mercenaries turn a blind eye to the treasures scattered all over the ground, but it is also very important to explore the environment before taking the treasures.
Being promoted to a gold-level mercenary means that they are extremely powerful. Naturally, they will not be as eager for quick success as those fledgling black iron-level mercenaries, fearing that they will miss the opportunity.
