Release that Witch Chapter 273: God Punishment Stone
Roland quickly estimated the volume of the lower underground cave. The bottom is almost the size of a football field, surrounded by steep mountain walls. The fork road leading to this just opens in the center of the mountain wall, and there is a narrow stone stairs beside the entrance, which extends downwards.
"I guess you didn't cut this stairway," he squatted, and brought the torch close to the ground. In the light of the fire, the marks of the axe carving on the stone steps are very obvious, and a lot of stone debris and dust are accumulated in the marks.
"Of course not, Your Highness. When we found it, the stone steps already existed," Carter shrugged. "I guess this thing has been around for decades."
"Or hundreds of years," Anna suddenly said.
"I think so," Lightning nodded, "Border Town was established only seventy years ago, and stone stairs is unlikely to be related to the locals or the kingdom."
"Is there anyone on Western Region hundreds of years ago?" Carter questioned, "Neither Greycastle has been established yet."
Roland patted the shoulder of Knight. "Before 450 years ago, there was a group of people who were forgotten by history." Then he raised his torch, "Let ’s go and see."
First Army soldiers have surrounded the bottom of the cave in twos and threes. He took Knight and witch and walked to the side of God Punishment Stone. Only when standing at the foot of stone pillar can he deeply feel the hugeness of God stone. With open arms, less than one-tenth of it, you must raise your head to see the top of it. The tallest purple God Punishment Stone is close to thirty meters, which is almost equivalent to a house of eight or nine floors.
Theoretically speaking, stones that can emit light either have radioactive substances or contain fluorescent components, but the light of God Punishment Stone is obviously not related to the former. The former's luminescence comes from the phenomenon of air ionization caused by the decay of the element itself. The shorter the half-life , The greater the brightness. At this light level, soldiers who entered first would die from ionizing radiation in just a few minutes. The latter needs to be illuminated before it can emit light. There is no light source in the depths of underground, which obviously cannot support it to continuously emit cold light.
Roland also noticed that although God stone is prismatic like crystals, the surface does not have crystalline lines, but is as smooth as flat glass.
"A thumb-sized God Punishment Stone in the church can sell several gold royals, as big as this one ... it can empty the Four Great Kingdoms vault." Carter couldn't help but sigh.
"Sell it to noble and kill witch?" Nightingale gave him a stern glance.
"Uh, I didn't say that," Chief Knight unconsciously looked away.
"I'm the first time I've seen this color of God Punishment Stone. Shouldn't it be white and transparent," Lightning curiously looked at stone pillar. "If I take a piece back, don't I need to order candle at night?"
"I would rather click a dozen candle in the sweltering room, rather than use it for lighting," Nightingale both hands hugged his chest. "For witch, it is a prison cage, a shackle and an Church's accomplice! It would be nice without this **** stone. "
"Well, sister Nightingale, you won't read anyway at night anyway ..." The little girl licked her lips, picked up a stone, and looked at Roland, "Can I take one back as an adventure booty?"
Roland nodded, "If you don't dislike this stuff."
She picked up the stone in her hand and knocked **** the corner of the prism. She only heard a "ding", the stone cracked in response, and there was no scar left on the prism.
Knight can't help but snorted, "What's going on ... isn't God Punishment Stone all fragile and fragile?"
"Perhaps this light is different," Lightning patted off the stone chips in his hand, and found a dagger out of the waist bag, and tossed around the prism for a while, but even if it was used for scraping and cutting, it was still futile.
Roland felt something was wrong, he signaled to Nightingale, "You try it."
The latter nodded, pulled out the revolver, and pulled the trigger directly to the other prism. A huge roar echoed immediately at the bottom of the cave, and a few ignition stars emerged from the site where God Punishment Stone was hit. After the smoke cleared, the group walked over, but saw that the bullet left only a shallow mark on the surface of God stone.
This means that, in terms of intensity, light has surpassed homogeneous steel.
"Efirearms is useless?" Carter frowned. "How did Church cut it down and sell it?"
No one can solve the problem of answer, and this is not the same as everyone's impression on weekdays.
At least Roland has broken God Punishment Lock with bricks, such as the one tied to the neck of Anna. Only two or three times can make the crystal clear stones turn into a white powder.
The silent Anna suddenly said, "Your Highness, do you remember the Treasure Map drawn by Morning Light Ferlin Schilt?"
"Treasure Map?" Roland froze. He vaguely remembers that a triangle on the drawing occupies most of the area, and three points to the ends of the Taqila Holy City, Hidden Forest stone tower, and Northern Slope Mountain feet ... wait, Northern Slope Mountain feet? Suddenly a Lightning flashed across his head, "Don't ..."
"I don't think that point is to Northern Slope Mine, but here" Anna slowly said, "This place contains a lot of underground caves of God Punishment Stone."
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After a careful search, apart from the pile of indestructible God stone, no other valuable discoveries were found in the hole.
Not to mention ancient books or remains, even the tools for engraving stone stairs have not been left, which is incredible. According to the current level of technology, it is definitely a huge and arduous project to create a staircase on a steep stone wall. Things like accidental falls and missing tools should be common. However, the site was not only stones, as if they had thoroughly cleaned the caves before evacuating.
Roland called Scroll when he returned to the office, and reproduced the drawings of Dawn Knight on Meta-Book.
Similar to the pattern in memory, the southernmost point does fall on the Northern Slope Mountain foot.
If Anna guessed correctly, this Is it possible is the map left by Church when searching for new God Punishment Stone veins? But why did they spend a lot of time excavating stone stairs directly to the bottom of the hole, but abandoned everything? If Church established a border church as early as 450 years ago, I am afraid that today's Border Town will be completely different. According to the price and use of God Punishment Stone, how can this mine be abandoned? natural resource.
Now Taqila Holy City is an unreachable restricted area. Maybe these answers can only be known after travelling to stone tower ... or they can never be known. (To be continued., Your support is my greatest motivation.)