Fifth Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Chapter: Magic Reversion

That afternoon, Roland was ready to head to the snow mountain.

This included a camping tent, plenty of rations, and a cement paddle steamer. Since the location of the demon camp was on the seaside, he had to start from the shallows – as usual, the transportation work was entrusted to Hummingbird.

It must be said that when a Hummingbird about the same size as Nana was grabbed the side of the ship and lifted the entire cement boat over her head in one breath, the scene looked very strange, like an ant moving a grain of rice several times larger than itself – if she blocked the boat by her side, looking from the other side, you could see a "ghost ship" silently sliding on land.

As long as her hands did not leave the boat, she could maintain this state. Compared with spending a lot of time to cancel the weight of the object at first, this enchanting method was faster, and the magic consumption rate was much lower. The only drawback was that Hummingbird had to follow the enchanted object, so she could only carry two items at a time at most.

The paddle steamer went west along the mountains, and arrived at the rocky beach two days later.

The last time Roland had only caught a glimpse of this land from the Looking Far, and now, standing on the rocky beach for the first time, he immediately felt a sense of desolation.

The scenery here was completely different from the shallows. The short dozens of miles seemed like two different worlds.

The rocky beach was covered with the remains of various animals, embedded in layers of rubble. Some had weathered away, while others were gradually turning into new stones. Some of the bones looked very thick, about the size of an adult's torso, and it was unknown what kind of creatures left them behind.

The steep rock walls also looked strange and bizarre.

Countless sharp stalagmites grew on the surface of the rocks. Unlike the naturally drooping shapes in caves, they all protruded horizontally and tilted upwards at the ends, looking like countless barbs. This gravity-defying landscape was simply incredible. Last time on the balloon, he couldn't see it clearly, but once he was actually on this rocky beach, it only made him feel creepy.

No trace of life could be found on the long beach. There were no seabirds nesting, no algae or sea mussels, and even behind the stone wall was a vast expanse, as if the demon's red mist had taken away all the vitality here.

According to the markings left by Lian, Roland and his party found the narrow gap leading to the camp. Rather than a gap, it was more like a fault line. The slender opening almost split the entire cliff, and it was bottomless. Lian had extended a half-meter-wide narrow path in this steep break.

As she stepped into the "One Line Sky" along the stone steps, Nightingale couldn't help but exclaim.

"What's wrong?" Roland couldn't help but ask.

"Look there," she pointed to the depths of the crack, "there are holes in the rock wall!"

The team stopped and looked around. In the dark, bottom-approaching position, Roland saw several circular holes, as if they had been chiseled out. "What is this?"

"I don't know. I've seen such holes in the Impassable Mountain Range, but the ones there are bigger," she hesitated, "and the deeper I go into the ground, the more I feel like something is watching me."

"Some…thing?" Roland was stunned.

"More than one," Nightingale nodded, "in the valley leading to the Co-prosperity Society camp, there is also a small road leading to the deeper underground, but I have never been down there."

"When Sylvie comes back, take her to the Impassable Mountain Range," he glanced at the bottom of the fault again, suppressed the urge to send someone down to explore, and then asked the team to continue moving forward.

Although this continent was part of the Dawn Realm, and there were records of human settlement thousands of years ago, the understanding of the world remained in a very primitive state, as if people deliberately ignored outward expansion. Roland had mentioned the continental map to Agatha, but was told that the Union had only detailed the Fertile Plains, and there was only a rough outline of the Dawn Realm, and nothing was known about the Dawn Realm beyond that.

This was also why he decided to vigorously support Thunder's exploration overseas – Roland originally thought that he would eventually find out the full picture of this world,

Now he found that he did not even know much about the Western Region of Graycastle where he was located.

Unfortunately, the war with the church was imminent, and he could only put these distractions aside for the time being.

After passing through the gap, the view suddenly opened up. The First Army soldiers who had camped here immediately welcomed everyone into the camp, and then Roland saw Agatha and Soroya.

"Where are Lightning and the others?"

"They are taking Asha flying everywhere," Agatha sighed, "she can't stop these days, and the demon camp is almost her playground."

"If this were in later generations, this would definitely be a national natural park that you would have to pay for tickets to enter," he said with emotion.

"What did you say?"

"No…nothing," Roland coughed twice, "I will use the Listening Seal to call her back, now let's go and see the collapsed stone tower you found."

When the group came to the center of the camp ruins, Lightning, Maggie, and Asha had just arrived.

"Lightning, about to land!"

The blonde little girl held her hands flat and slowly floated to the ground, then turned around and gave Roland a full hug.

Roland felt a little dumbfounded in his heart. According to her age, Lightning had also reached that special age stage.

"Awoo—!" Then came Maggie, also holding her wings flat and smashing to the ground, almost shaking Asha off her back.

Lightning was easy to understand, but Maggie was obviously an adult witch, Roland thought helplessly, it seemed that this disease was contagious.

"Since everyone is here, let's start," he signaled to Asha, whose legs were weak.

"Yes… Your Majesty." Asha limped to the edge of the pit and closed her eyes.

In an instant, the big pit on the ground suddenly disappeared, and a huge black stone tower appeared in front of everyone. At the same time, red mist filled the air, as thick as blood.

Roland subconsciously took a step back and held his breath.

"This is the scene before the change, twenty-six days ago," Agatha explained, "if you only use the reversion ability once, Asha can maintain the illusion for nearly half an hour, so we can just observe the entire process."

"What about the Eyeball Demon you mentioned, covered in eyeballs, that can attract the attention of demons as long as it is watched?" Tilly asked curiously.

"At the top of this stone tower," Agatha pointed to the top, "but the height of the stone tower exceeds Asha's ability range, so it can't be seen for the time being."

Roland looked up and saw a blank space above the tower, as if it had been completely cut off – it seemed that only within a five-meter radius around Asha could the magic be reproduced.

Just then, the ground seemed to tremble.

"Here it comes!" Agatha said in a deep voice.

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